At times, 12 O'Clock Boys achieves the exalted state of a Terrence Malick movie, with Pug, a naïf on the order of Sissy Spacek in Badlands or Linda Manz in Days Of Heaven, narrating over stylized shots of him wilding out with his boyz. (thedissolve.com)
That being said, would it have killed the development team to put in an Easy Mode for sissies like me? (gamesetwatch.com)
There was something shockingly raw about DePalma's direction; the performances and the very presence of Sissy Spacek as the skittish title character and Piper Laurie as her smothering mother seemed almost animalistic in their purity. (christylemire.com)