Critic Reviews

• Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic

  Lipsky tries to use dialogue to cover up weaknesses in other areas - such as why these people behave the way they do. Some of the movie is inviting, some of it off-putting.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  It doesn't work but I doubt you'll regret seeing it.

• Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

  Reiners and Gummer have respective moments where their talents shine, but there's not enough here to keep any but the most masochistic even moderately interested.

• Tom Long, Detroit News

  This sort of emotional-chaos-in-suburbia (it all takes place in Iowa) has been done well, of course, and at times it is here. But Lipsky's overly arch and tangential dialogue has too many curlicues, and everyone's emotions seem just this side of affected.

• Stephanie Merry, Washington Post

  For all the promising fodder, the talky, acrid "Twelve Thirty" feels soulless, an emotion-free zone that deals its darkness in a shockingly flip manner.

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  It is a film that gradually draws the viewer into its thrall and builds to an unpredictable but effective climax.

• Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze

  While movies with a gay look at hetero mating habits may not be sympathetic, at least some authenticity is a must. And this film dodges just that, as a closet gay spouse self-liberates from his dysfunctional family, fleeing the all-female Cuckoo's Nest.

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