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12 O'Clock Boys
2014 76m TV-MA
Documentary
,
Biography
,
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6.4
92%
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Pug, a young boy growing up on a combative West Baltimore block, finds solace in a group of illegal dirt bike riders known as The 12 O'Clock Boys.
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Directed By
Lotfy Nathan
Written By
Lotfy Nathan
Studio
Prospekt
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Mission Films
,
Oscilloscope
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Cast of 12 O'Clock Boys
Coco
Coco
Pug
Pug
Steven
Steven
Funmi Sodipo
Bystander
12 O'Clock Boys Reviews
Orange County Register
Michael Sragow
In this transfixing documentary about a Baltimore boy striving to join illegal urban dirt bikers, first-time filmmaker Lofty Nathan conjures a unique journalistic excitement.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A short, pungent, ambiguous portrait of the poorer sections of Baltimore and the young men who get their kicks riding dirt bikes through the streets en masse, popping wheelies and dodging the police.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
The film's implication, that the rides need to be curtailed, seems obvious; and I can't help thinking that Nathan realizes this, but stops short.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
[It] spectacularizes black criminality for white middle-class viewers, the primary audience for the festivals and art houses where this film will have its career.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
[Pug is] a fiercely individual child, but, inevitably, his predicament also symbolizes how poverty can warp a good boy's nature.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
Documentary filmmaker Lotfy Nathan explores the outlaw appeal of an inner-city Baltimore dirt-bike gang through the eyes of a 13-year-old wannabe member named Pug.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Its rhythm is the jagged rhythm of everyday life, and its primary asset is its unemphatic authenticity, offering a window into a very specific time and place.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Nathan wisely avoids explicit commentary. He doesn't need it: Coco's angry frustration, Pug's bruised confusion, and the police helicopters constantly hovering above the defiant bikers say enough.
NPR
Ian Buckwalter
Nathan's film defies easy categorization; he's interested in neither telling a fairy tale nor painting issues in broad strokes.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
As reticent as Nathan is to cast explicit judgment, the film shows the tragic impasse between a street culture that's reckless and provocative, and a police force that exacerbates the problem with heavy-handed tactics.
Slant Magazine
Kenji Fujishima
It constantly divides itself between fulfilling the conventions of the informational talking-heads documentary and aiming for a more poetically impressionistic quality.
The Playlist
Kimber Myers
An exciting, beautifully shot look at a subculture through the eyes of one of its most devoted admirers.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
It could have romanticized its subjects, portraying them as outlaws and folk heroes. Or it could have gone the way of moral panic. To its credit, [it] does neither of these things - or, rather, it does both, in the most subtle and insightful way possible.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
"12 O'Clock Boys" packs more life into its 72 minutes than many longer documentaries do.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
The young filmmaker rarely digs beneath the harsh environment's many fraught surfaces. He simply lets his cameras be his guide.
Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
This visually stunning, thematically complex documentary will stir up a wide range of reactions.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
In slow-motion shots, Nathan captures the riders' pride in mastery and thrill in adventure.
indieWire
Eric Kohn
Set to a lively soundtrack, 12 O'Clock Boys expresses the paradox of the sport -- its surface coolness and inherent recklessness -- as a single, troublesome package.
L.A. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
An urban Western with ball caps and bikes in place of cowboy hats and horses.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Using Baltimore's dirt-bike groups as its entry point, the film offers a remarkable grassroots look at how the system is broken at the inner-city level.
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