Monster movies are supposed to frighten the audience; this one fails utterly in that arena.
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01/01/00
Wolf (1994)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:28
Rotten:19
Average Rating:5.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: The deposed editor-in-chief of an old, distinguished publishing firm, recently taken over by a multi-millionaire, corporate raider, is bitten by a wolf on a lonely stretch of road in Vermont the... [More]
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan
Director: Mike Nichols
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Reviews for Wolf
Top CriticWill speak to both your inner animal and your civilized soul.
08/30/02
It is movies like Wolf that reinvigorate the movie fan lurking inside us all, showing us that commercial and artistic success can truly coexist in modern cinema.
03/12/02
Mike Nichols' underrated 1994 hybrid not only of wolf and man, but also of satire and horror...an eccentric film that may well be regarded, decades hence, as a movie classic. [Blu-ray]
10/26/09
An effective attempt to place a werewolf story in an incongruous setting, with the closely observed details of that setting used to make the story seem more believable.
01/01/00
Top CriticNicholson as a werewolf is kind of redundant, isn't it?
01/01/00
If he'd followed through, Mike Nichols might have made a brilliant picture -- seems he just couldn't bear to look a gift wolf in the mouth.
04/12/02
Top CriticIt's a wonderfully entertaining and beautifully performed film.
01/01/00
Top CriticMost of the way, Wolf is quite satisfying, and Nicholson is in top form.
01/01/00
A sometimes shaky, always enchanting Beauty and the Beast story for grown-ups that is the very essence of smart fun -- droll, sophisticated and surprisingly, pleasingly light.
01/01/00
Top CriticNicholson has rarely been better than here, walking the line between the refinement of society and the pleasures of things more elemental.
10/31/02
Director Mike Nichols emphasizes the film's Kafkaesque metamorphosis, a metaphor for the nightmarish experience of becoming different from most people and less valued; I won't be surprised if some viewers see it as allegory about AIDS.
12/21/06
...had the script been any good, Nicholson would have been the perfect choice to play a "civilized" man wrestling with the beast within.
10/30/02
With the always edgy, slightly demonic, and predictably unpredictable Jack Nicholson as the wolf man, it actually works . . . almost.
10/16/09
An excellent movie directed by Mike Nichols.
01/01/00
Nichols tries mightily to put a new spin on a very old tale, but try as he might, he never gets much off the ground.
01/01/00
Glossy werewolf horror/comedy that fails to make its mark on the genre.
01/12/09
Nichols has allowed Wolf to evolve from a well-mounted, supernatural drama to goofy camp.
01/01/00
Top CriticNichols has crafted a rapturous romantic thriller with a darkly comic subtext about what kills human values.
05/12/01
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