12 Angry Men (Twelve Angry Men) Reviews
Cinema Crazed
The cast is incredible, the writing superb, and the film is unparalleled in its sheer excellence.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Scene-Stealers.com
This was Sidney Lumet's first movie and it's as riveting as it was back in the late 50s, when everything was changing.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Q Network Film Desk
an incisive and gripping film
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| Original Score: 4/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Lumet keeps things tense, sweaty, suspenseful and entertaining despite the contrived story line.
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| Original Score: B
Common Sense Media
Outstanding Henry Fonda jury classic.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Matt's Movie Reviews
A brilliant courtroom drama whose strength lies within the power of Rose's words and Sidney Lumet's great direction (his debut).
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| Original Score: 4/5
Nick's Flick Picks
12 Angry Men has some shrewd observations to sell about argumentation and group behavior, but they're not the ones of which the film seems most proud.
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| Original Score: B-
Apollo Guide
taut, well-crafted sociological study
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| Original Score: 82/100
Top Critic
Filmcritic.com
Every bit the classic it's been made out to be for all these years.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Power house jury room drama w/cast of memorable actors.
| Original Score: 5/5
Projection Booth
Makes no self-saluting motions to greater importance, which gives the material the much-desired breathing room it needs to reach full potency.
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| Original Score: A
Mechanically written, but within its own middlebrow limitations, it delivers the goods.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Sidney Lumet's feature directing debut is a brilliant courtroom drama, with a superlative cast that includes Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, Ed Begley, Jack Warden, and E.G. Marshall.
| Original Score: 5/5
Arizona Daily Star
A masterful work of debate and dialogue; of shifting momentum and the ideal of sticking to your scruples in the face of antagonistic groupthink.
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| Original Score: 4/4
rec.arts.movies.reviews
This film is a great combination of an adult theme and the treatment suitable for younger audience.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema em Cena
Ainda que se passe em um único ambiente, esta obra-prima possui um alcance emocional imensurável - e é incrível que tenha sido o primeiro longa-metragem de Lumet.
| Original Score: 5/5
Lawrence Journal-World
One-room dramas don't get much better than this
| Original Score: 5/5
