The film is genuinely underwhelming. No character development. Why is it even called November Criminals? It's an hour and a half of pure drab. The story has absolutely nothing carrying it, no depth and nothing interesting happens. It's like the film is one big development for something to happen, but nothing happens. You open your eyes and they've solved the murder with absolutely no journey. The only interesting part is the murder, and everything else is just teenagers being mopey. Not read the book but I assume they didn't adapt it to film very well.