Wolfs
Sony Pictures Releasing | Release Date: September 20, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 51 Critic Reviews
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91
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerSep 20, 2024
Wolfs is classy, smart, fun, and engaging storytelling, a solid film that plays great in a full theater and could have offered audiences a nice grown-up night at the movies. Read full review
90
Screen DailyLee MarshallSep 1, 2024
Director Jon Watts’ self-penned script possesses a faultless sense of timing, and it becomes the gift that keeps on giving in the hands of Clooney, Pitt and a fine supporting cast. Read full review
83
The PlaylistRafaela Sales RossSep 1, 2024
At a time when more and more filmmakers seem to be looking back at the basics of classic genres like cop procedurals, romantic comedies and crime thrillers, Watts brings to the table a tightly written and directed action comedy that is reminiscent of the era that crowned the genre without alienating itself from the time in which it was made. Read full review
80
Vanity FairRichard LawsonSep 1, 2024
The movie is not trying to make any grand statements or reinvent any wheels; it is only trying to entertain. Read full review
80
Screen RantAlex HarrisonSep 1, 2024
Wolfs isn't just funny, it's funny in all the different ways it needs to be. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittSep 26, 2024
While the movie overcomplicates matters as the plot tosses in assorted criminal types and various twists, the leads always keep it watchable just riffing off each other with verbal barbs and sharp looks as their unnamed characters’ icy relationship melts and they find a mutual respect. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonSep 24, 2024
Wolfs has enough action to keep us from contemplating how silly it is. Read full review
75
Washington PostChris KlimekSep 20, 2024
So Clooney and Pitt’s first outing as scene partners since “Burn After Reading” 16 years ago turns out to be a pleasing, if largely predictable, lupine lark. Read full review
75
Original-CinKaren GordonSep 20, 2024
Overall, Wolfs is not breaking new ground, nor is it trying to. But it is an entertaining couple of hours at the movies. That works for me. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsSep 19, 2024
Does it matter that Wolfs is about literally nothing except itself and its star packaging? Maybe not. On the other hand, Watts hasn’t written a single fleshed-out character. It’s about genre tropes, distilled to minimalist quipping amid maximalist mayhem. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMichael OrdoñaSep 18, 2024
Yes, it’s a familiar formula, though instead of buddy cops, it’s buddy cleaners. What these “Wolfs” do is shades darker than the gentleman thievery of the “Ocean’s” larks, and the character comedy comes from a deeper place. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJake CoyleSep 18, 2024
Thankfully, someone has come to the not-hard-to-deduce realization that Clooney and Pitt are good together. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennySep 4, 2024
This is neither a trifle nor a truly Major Motion Picture; it’s an entertainment maybe in the sense that Graham Greene used the term. But one needn’t be so hifalutin about the matter. Read full review
75
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiSep 1, 2024
It’s a movie about cool people looking and acting cool, for the enjoyment of the (probably uncool) people in the audience. They call it ‘star power’ because it dazzles. Read full review
75
IndieWireRyan LattanzioSep 1, 2024
Even if Wolfs is a light affair in the end, it’s a smashing good time, confidently told and unpredictable, with two charismatic leading turns that are nearly even upstaged by Abrams. Read full review
70
Film ThreatAlex SavelievSep 24, 2024
As effortless as Clooney and Pitt’s screen charisma is, one can’t help but wish for a more polished scenario to complement it. Read full review
70
ColliderTania HussainSep 20, 2024
As a film that thrives on its leads’ undeniable chemistry, Wolfs draws most of its strength from Clooney and Pitt’s effortless interplay, despite its narrative shortcomings. But for fans of light-hearted action comedies, Wolfs is a howling good time — even if it doesn’t quite sink its teeth in for a lasting bite. Read full review
70
Rolling StoneDavid FearSep 19, 2024
It’s all at the service of the Clooney-Pitt Show, and credit Wolfs for reminding you how fun the sight of these two guys running around while shooting guns, looking late-middle-aged cool and cracking wise, remains. This used to be a typical Friday night at the movies, and now it’s a rarity. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 1, 2024
In Wolfs, Clooney and Pitt revel in the crack timing, in the I-truly-do-not-like-you obscene banter, that makes even the most casual insult take wing. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreSep 1, 2024
It is an unabashed platform for basking in the rapport of its two leading men, who are in familiar and fine form as a pair of hypercompetent cleaners, and that makes it a consistently enjoyable watch even when the pacing gets a little slack. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerSep 1, 2024
Both fun and thin at the same time, it’s not about much in the end except the idea of reuniting Pitt and Clooney to see if they still have their magic, which they mostly do. Read full review
68
Paste MagazineJacob OllerSep 20, 2024
It’s a star vehicle intent on dulling its leads’ shine, a slick blockbuster relying on narrative and visual restrictions, a cynical movie about the power of friendship. And yet, even as Wolfs undermines itself, it’s a charmingly prickly (or charming, despite its prickliness) mess. Read full review
65
ABC NewsPeter TraversSep 20, 2024
The jokes are repetitive and the action is strictly formula, but the old-school star power of George Clooney and Brad Pitt having a laugh as lone wolf fixers stuck working the same job in New York gets by on the pleasure of their company. Read full review
65
The Film VerdictAlonso DuraldeSep 1, 2024
The film ultimately exists as a delivery device for Clooney and Pitt to engage in prickly banter and deadpan wisecracking. Any ideas deeper than that are rejected like an unsuitable liver. Read full review
65
SlashfilmJeremy MathaiSep 1, 2024
Frequently funny and consistently stylish, Wolfs is a solid and serviceable enough addition to the genre — though one that's perhaps a bit too indebted to the influence of Scorsese.  Read full review
63
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenSep 26, 2024
Once Wolfs leaves the hotel the charm begins to thin (though Austin Abrams has a giddily dizzy monologue as a third wheel they pick up along the way), while a last-act attempt to inject a moral dilemma into the proceedings feels false. Yet for a dad—and, let’s face it, mom—movie, Wolfs could have been way worse. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 26, 2024
Wolfs is a pleasant enough experience. At 108 minutes, it’s not too long and, putting aside the aggravating manner in which Watts ends the story, it goes down easily. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 25, 2024
It’s a star vehicle that reminds us of why star power still counts for something, even if the comic thriller you park this pairing of Butch and Sundance in has them upstaged by a kid still young enough to be willing to not just wear tidy whiteys, but to run all over New York in them. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldSep 20, 2024
Wolfs is a great idea for a crime comedy, but it isn’t a particularly great movie. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 19, 2024
Not even the star power of Clooney and Pitt can elevate this beyond the level of a passable, disposable thriller. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzSep 19, 2024
Once the half-clever set-up is established by Watts – what happens when two lone wolves must work together? – the film is content to merely coast on the charms of its stars. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredDemi PhillipsSep 27, 2024
George Clooney and Brad Pitt fail to bring the big guns out on 'Wolfs,' but are just the right amount of endearing for streaming success. Read full review
60
NMELou ThomasSep 27, 2024
Despite its superficially dark material, Wolfs isn’t meant to be difficult or challenging, it’s just an enjoyable time hanging out with some chilled, reassuringly handsome gents as they get to the bottom of their not-a-murder mystery. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzSep 24, 2024
It’s a serviceable movie, nothing more but — also important — nothing less. And did we mention it has George Clooney and Brad Pitt? Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentSep 5, 2024
Wolfs has all the practised professionalism of its two anti-heroes, if not quite their spark. But there are few movie stars as straightforwardly enjoyable to watch as Clooney and Pitt. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeSep 4, 2024
There are reminders of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours and Sean Baker’s incoming Palme d’Or winner Anora in that urban chaos, but Watts’s bland style washes out all the grime to leave us with, well, something you might expect from a streaming release. Read full review
60
Total FilmJames MottramSep 3, 2024
For those looking for an easy-on-the-eye, brain-in-neutral-thriller, Wolfs still hits the spot. Read full review
60
BBCNicholas BarberSep 1, 2024
This laidback crime caper doesn't have a great deal more to offer, but there is something to be said for seeing the pals from Ocean's Eleven on the same screen again. Read full review
60
The GuardianXan BrooksSep 1, 2024
The film itself never amounts to much more than a silly, self-satisfied crime caper, but the headline stars look as though they are enjoying themselves and their sense of fun, by and large, is infectious. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSep 20, 2024
As respectful as writer-director Jon Watts is toward creating opportunities for wise-ass capering, the movie is curiously both a labored and lax attempt at restoring that luster. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla DargisSep 19, 2024
The movie is a trifle, and it knows it. Mostly, though, Wolfs, written and directed by Jon Watts, is an excuse for its two leads to riff on their own personas, which can be faintly amusing and certainly watchable but also insufferably smug. It’s insufferable a lot. Read full review
50
LooperAudrey FoxSep 2, 2024
George Clooney and Brad Pitt have wonderful chemistry together, as always, and they make sense as two wily, slightly over-the-hill fixers, but Wolfs itself is relatively uninspired. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineGregory NussenSep 1, 2024
The witty repartee between Clooney and Pitt feels like the only thing holding the film together. Read full review
50
The Film StageLuke HicksSep 1, 2024
The movie doesn’t have much to offer by way of score, composition, camera movement, sound design, style, lighting, production design, etc. At least there will be some narrative to discover, and a pleasure in lead performers still harmoniously attuned to one another despite the script’s hobbles. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeSep 29, 2024
A film that erases itself so thoroughly from your memory, it’s almost as if Pitt and Clooney had performed one of their bespoke clean-up services on your brain. Read full review
40
Little White LiesHannah StrongSep 26, 2024
While the mysterious finer details of Clooney and Pitt’s characters are willfully obscured on account of their guarded professionalism, it’s a shame that the film paints in such broad strokes more widely, as this doesn’t leave much room for substantial character development or emotional investment. Read full review
40
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaSep 1, 2024
The premise may be intriguing, but the repetitive approach and nearly identical lead characters renders the Ocean's duo without their signature chemistry and strands them in a distractingly underpopulated criminal underworld. Read full review
40
The TimesKevin MaherSep 1, 2024
A painfully derivative buddy movie. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithSep 19, 2024
The plot beats are so dull, contrived and poorly engineered (for a few minutes the wolves must pretend to be rivals who don’t know each other) that the movie becomes an onerous chore comparable to the one that launches the action. Who can I call to make this dead movie disappear? Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiSep 17, 2024
Wolfs, a so-called comedy written and directed by Jon Watts in which Clooney and Pitt play rival New York fixers tasked with discreetly disposing of a dead body, is a dreadful, laugh-free slog that tests the limits of what star power alone can salvage. Read full review
20
The Daily BeastBarry LevittSep 1, 2024
It repeats the same joke over and over (and over again). And just when you think Wolfs might be interested in moving onto fresh new material, it attempts the same punchline again, in its 400th variation. Read full review
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