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12 O'Clock Boys
Directed by
Lotfy Nathan
TV-MA
2013
76m
Documentary
,
Biography
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6.5
92%
65%
6.0
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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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Cast of 12 O'Clock Boys
Coco
Coco
Pug
Pug
Steven
Steven
Funmi Sodipo
Bystander
Lotfy Nathan
Writer / Producer / Director Of Photography / Assistant Director
Tom Colley
Producer
John Kassab
Producer
Thomas Niles
Editor
Joe Williams
Original Music Composer
Eric Milano
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
12 O'Clock Boys Ratings & Reviews
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.
Washington City Paper
Tricia Olszewski
For a first-time filmmaker, Nathan achieves a remarkable balance, presenting each side with very little bias.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
This visually stunning, thematically complex documentary will stir up a wide range of reactions.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
In slow-motion shots, Nathan captures the riders' pride in mastery and thrill in adventure.
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.
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.
L.A. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
An urban Western with ball caps and bikes in place of cowboy hats and horses.
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.
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