The Village Voice, May 17th, 2006
Twelve and Holding
Directed by Michael Cuesta
IFC, opens May 19
Harried... With Children
Suburban kids and parents fail to act their age
Like his first feature L.L.E.-and like half of the glib provocations that tumble off the indie assembly line-Michael Cuesta's Twelve and Holding is a sneering inquiry into the florid dysfunction that lurks deep in leafiest suburbia. Striking in both its confidence and its incoherence, L.I.E. detailed the queasy platonic relationship between a pretty, neglected teenage boy and the kindly neighborhood pederast. Cuesta's new poisoned valentine to adolescenc...
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