Wolf

Focus Features | Release Date: December 3, 2021

2.8	USER SCORE Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Ratings

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JLuis_001Mar 15, 2022

At first glance it might seem that this film has a humorous vein, and it's not for lack of seriousness, far from it, but rather that it struggles to explore those emotions adequately.

Ideas abound because the concept allows for it, but theAt first glance it might seem that this film has a humorous vein, and it's not for lack of seriousness, far from it, but rather that it struggles to explore those emotions adequately.

Ideas abound because the concept allows for it, but the story and its director take themselves too seriously and the lack of focus makes the film seem more satirical than disciplined or serious.

The acting is reliable as far as they go, especially George MacKay's committed performance, but in more general matters, the allegory explored in my own interpretation is deficient, and therefore soon becomes tiresome.

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Mauro_LanariSep 19, 2022

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That clinical lycanthropy is chosen as an allegory to tell something else is understood as soon as one sees the behavioral therapy adopted in the rehabilitation clinic, even before Paddy Considine enters the scene in the role(Mauro Lanari)
That clinical lycanthropy is chosen as an allegory to tell something else is understood as soon as one sees the behavioral therapy adopted in the rehabilitation clinic, even before Paddy Considine enters the scene in the role of the villain. In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" of '75, Forman made the nurse Mildred Ratched played by Louise Fletcher evil, but this time the director is a woman and "canis canem non est". Moreover, Nathalie Biancheri's thesis is neither in favor of anti-psychiatry nor of the depathologization of SID ("Species Identity Disorder"), a change that has already occurred with the elimination of the word "disorder" in the new label "species dysphoria". Here the bad guys are first of all the parents who want to normalize their children (all the patients in the clinic are young teenagers), then there is the ecological attack on Hobbes: would human beings be like wolves when instead we would be the worst of the animals? Idea similar to Rousseau's myth of the noble savage ("Émile", 1762), although treated with a style very far from that of Truffaut in "L'Enfant sauvage" (1972). Finally she wanders between quotes from Hannibal Lecter and "Rumble Fish" (Coppola 1983), a bit haphazardly and with a lot of presumption. I would be happy if someone clearly explained that, beyond binary logic, there is still it, albeit at a metalevel (the eccentrics opposed to the conformists). Do I ask too much?… Expand

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ryanoliveira3Dec 17, 2021

Being weird and artsy doesn’t make it good. It’s a badly told but at times well acted and well shot “art house” film

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moviecritic68Dec 8, 2021

You can thank me for steering you away from this disaster. Not sure what the writer was going for but he missed horribly. Just 2 other attendees in the theater should have been the warning sign. El stinkaroo ... pass by all means.

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garmonboziaJan 1, 2022

BEARly watchable, boring mess. Juvenile, ideological propaganda. Treats mental illness as a metaphor for oppression against minorities. The sexual intercourse between the two main characters looked like "furry" fetish. The film tries to sayBEARly watchable, boring mess. Juvenile, ideological propaganda. Treats mental illness as a metaphor for oppression against minorities. The sexual intercourse between the two main characters looked like "furry" fetish. The film tries to say that if somebody feels like a horse, we should all pretend that he's a horse for his sake. Enough of this stupidity. You don't have to participate in other people's delusions. Humans are not other animals. That's the biological truth. The only thing that made sense was Lilly Depp's character worrying about living outside of the psychiatric center in the last scene. I'm sorry for George MacKay. He's a brilliant young actor. He did what he could to be convincing in this role. His wolf walk was amazing. Unfortunately this film does a disservice to real psychiatric issues and to trans community. Because when you show species dysphoria in such ridiculous manner how can you demand people treat gender dysphoria as a serious matter? Extremely woke and very bad movie.… Expand

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UncleWillardDec 13, 2021

Zero for concept. What is this, some kind of otherkin oppression saga, LMAO! I mean, that would be amazing; a documentary of **** getting put into therapy for their dumbass otherkin shenanigans. I can see those folks gravitating toward this,Zero for concept. What is this, some kind of otherkin oppression saga, LMAO! I mean, that would be amazing; a documentary of **** getting put into therapy for their dumbass otherkin shenanigans. I can see those folks gravitating toward this, so congrats on making it the best movie for like two dozen weirdos. I have to watch it now.… Expand

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