The Wolfman (2010)

All Critics (208) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (73) | Rotten (138) | DVD (7)

When the beast finally bursts forth, the character becomes, for the most part, a digitally augmented blur -- there's no room for a performance underneath all the 0s and 1s.

February 17, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Keith Uhlich

Time Out New York

Top Critic

With its mist-shrouded sets, gruesome slaughter and copious CGI, this is a surprisingly respectful updating of the 1941 Universal original.

February 16, 2010 Full Review

Nigel Floyd

Time Out

Top Critic

Actors fulminate and masticate, spit, scowl and sob; what a gas it is to watch them overact with joy and conviction.

February 12, 2010 Full Review

Amy Biancolli

Houston Chronicle

Top Critic

An ill-considered, utterly unnecessary remake.

February 12, 2010 Full Review

James Adams

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

The Wolfman, hokey and uneven though it is, [has] the kind of authentic emotional hook that too many horror movies today don't have.

February 12, 2010 Full Review

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Benicio Del Toro pulls off a nifty trick in The Wolfman: He makes turning into a werewolf look as dull as doing your taxes.

February 12, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Adam Graham

Detroit News

Top Critic

There is a better movie in here, lost in the edit and screaming to get out, but unfortunately, this Wolfman is howling at a moon that's only half-full.

September 28, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

The movie keeps the traditional look of the Wolfman and uses a mixture of practical effects and digital wizardry.

July 31, 2012 Full Review

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

It truly is a modern spin on a classic, in almost all of the worst ways.

February 10, 2012 Full Review

John Gholson

Cinematical

Given its troubled path to the big screen, The Wolfman (2010) is far better than it has any right to be.

November 5, 2011 Full Review

Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

I was dumbly entertained in spite of (or maybe because of) all that.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

What's missing in this Wolfman is something timeless: the human cost that gives tragic meaning to the metamorphosis and potential cure.

March 9, 2011 Full Review

Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

Joe Johnston turns a classic monster into an anaemic bore.

December 31, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Don Groves

sbs.com.au

The only thing scary about Joe Johnston's The Wolfman is that it exists. The fact that people, nay professionals, spent several years working on this picture genuinely upsets me.

October 21, 2010 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

I enjoyed it as a companion piece to the superior original...

October 19, 2010 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

A slick update of the monster movie classic, The Wolfman features strong imagery and performances, yet is lacking in animal instinct.

July 17, 2010 Full Review

Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

While The Wolfman often veers towards the realm of camp, no irony is to be found herein.

July 5, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

In the end, The Wolfman reminded me of a couple of people I have dated - achingly beautiful but emotionally barren, and just a tiny little bit scary.

July 4, 2010

Cris Kennedy

Screenwize

Flounders in its stabs at epic action-horror grandeur.

June 28, 2010 Full Review

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

Joe Johnston's monster movie remake is a confused mongrel of a film %u2013 half restrained gothic horror, half Hellraiser.

June 4, 2010 Full Review

Jordan Farley

SFX Magazine

It can't be a coincidence that all of the characters constantly talk about obligation. And Emily Blunt has the most telling line, "This place is impossible to escape." This was no doubt a professional edict for those on the set.

June 1, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Adam Lippe

Examiner.com

Bite worse than bark bulletproof beasts without benefit of steroids, species profiling, paw to paw beatdown staged like a World Wrestling Federation bout with fur, and the manimal who came to dinner.

June 1, 2010 Full Review

Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

A glossy, good-looking production that never fully delivers on its promise of resurrecting one of the great movie monsters for a modern audience.

May 31, 2010 Full Review

Steve Biodrowski

Cinefantastique

The alternate endings are all gripping %u2014 but I liked the bleakest one best. It hits the hardest final note.

May 29, 2010 Full Review

Staci Layne Wilson

Horror.com

Like most of director Joe Johnston's work, solidly gets the job done as a brisk, bloody entertainment.

May 16, 2010 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

• 1. Constable Nye: One day we found him, he was torn appart and half eaten, whatever did it was big, fast, and bugshot couldn't kill him.. The men went home, to carze silver bullets, wouldn't leave the house on a full moon, from now on...
  2. Butcher: Ha! He thought it was werewolf! [everyone laughs]
  – Submitted by Connor N (7 months ago)
• 1. Lawrence Talbot: [Glenn shots and kills him, happening to end the curse] Thank you..
  – Submitted by Connor N (7 months ago)
• 1. Lawrence Talbot: [sees his silver bullets] you hunt monsters?
  2. Mr. Kirk: Sometimes monsters hunt you.
  – Submitted by Connor N (7 months ago)
• 1. Sir John Talbot: Never look back, Lawrence. Never look back. The past is a wilderness of horrors.
  – Submitted by Judson B (18 months ago)
• 1. Sir John Talbot: Terrible things Lawrence. You've done terrible things.
  – Submitted by Marc L (21 months ago)
• 1. Maleva: Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright.
  – Submitted by Lucas M (21 months ago)

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