Werewolf

Name: Werewolf
Genre: Drama
Released: March 1, 2018
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Andrew Gillis, Bhreagh MacNeil, Kyle M. Hamilton

2018

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Factory 25 | Release Date: March 1, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Andrew Gillis, Bhreagh MacNeil, Kyle M. Hamilton

Summary: Blaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in their small town. Each day they push a rusty lawnmower door-to-door begging to cut grass. Nessa plots an escape, while Blaise lingers closer to collapse. Tethered to one another, their getaway dreams are kept on a suffocatingly short leash.

Director: Ashley McKenzie

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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Barry Hertz

Feb 28, 2018

This is a raw, intense movie circling on despair, hopelessness and inevitable dead ends. It is about the dark. But in plumbing the pitch black, Werewolf offers the distinct hope of a brighter future – at least, a brighter future for Canadian cinema. Read full review

Richard Brody

Feb 28, 2018

By means of ferociously intimate images, tensely controlled performances, and a spare sense of drama, Ashley McKenzie’s first feature, about two young drug addicts in Nova Scotia, conjures a state of heightened consciousness. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Feb 28, 2018

Werewolf unmistakably announces McKenzie as a potentially significant new voice, gifted enough to make well-trod ground seem newly landscaped. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Feb 28, 2018

The performers don’t seem like they’re acting at all, which contributes to the film’s unsettling power. The elliptical narrative structure articulates a sad truth of the addict’s life concerning both the challenge and the tedium of making it through to the next fix. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Feb 28, 2018

Its story may be thin, its characters not particularly original, but McKenzie’s use of cinematic language is savvy and novel, finding complexity where others might find only emptiness. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Feb 28, 2018

McKenzie deserves credit for revealing such a troubling facet of her homeland, and even if the shallow focus — both literal and figurative — of her movie can be frustrating at times, she bravely never turns away. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Feb 28, 2018

For all her attempts at documentary-style verisimilitude, filmmaker Ashley McKenzie doesn’t really cover much new ground with Werewolf. Read full review

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digs5446

Aug 19, 2018

Really impressive debut feature from a promising Canadian director.

At times uncomfortable to sit through but that's kind of the point. This isn't escapism, this is an unflinching look into the lives of two addict lovers moving in different directions at different speeds. With minimalReally impressive debut feature from a promising Canadian director.

At times uncomfortable to sit through but that's kind of the point. This isn't escapism, this is an unflinching look into the lives of two addict lovers moving in different directions at different speeds.

With minimal dialog, the camera lingers closely to catch every bit of acne, crooked and rotting teeth, soulless stare, and pained expressions caught between shame and despair...really great cinematography.… Expand

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zombiechan

Aug 20, 2018

Very depressing, needed to watch Paddington 2 to lighten the mood. I look forward to seeing more from this director.

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JLuis_001

Apr 18, 2021

It's bleak, I mean it's a bleak existence but with 70 minutes long, the film goes absolutely nowhere. Perhaps for the actors it was a challenge, even if you take into account their robotic performances, but as a viewer, there's nothing you can take with you in the end.

You don't know them,It's bleak, I mean it's a bleak existence but with 70 minutes long, the film goes absolutely nowhere. Perhaps for the actors it was a challenge, even if you take into account their robotic performances, but as a viewer, there's nothing you can take with you in the end.

You don't know them, you don't know anything about them, and the narrative never seeks to answer that.
It's just two drug addicts living a miserable day to day, until the story finally stops.
Nothing was resolved, the director simply decided to put an end to it at that time.

This was mediocre.… Expand

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