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Avg. Critic Score: 57 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
15 Iffy for 15+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    One of the five most popular films of the year in France, "Wolf" is a cross-cultural hoot that no one should take too seriously. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    The picture has a daring attention-span deficit and an epic silliness that can be awesomely entertaining. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    I would be lying if I did not admit that this is all, in its absurd and overheated way, entertaining. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety |

    A little Sergio Leone here, a little "Sleepy Hollow" there, a grand helping of late royal-era Gaul with its wigs and finery, and, uh, martial arts-style confrontations galore are all deftly melded in Brotherhood of the Wolf. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Ty Burr

    This is one of those follies that go beyond pesky, bourgeois notions of ''good'' and ''bad.'' Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Must we import the rubbish we export? Read full review

  • 40
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    This new take on horror is more of the bloody same. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Has its moments. In fact, it has too many of them. At 2 hours and 20 minutes and with enough characters to take up a few floors at a big hotel, it feels about an act too long. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    Too ludicrous to be taken seriously, but not entertaining enough to rate as camp. Read full review

  • 10
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    This one's a turkey as big as the Eiffel Tower but it's bad in a particularly American way: It's wildly overdone, it throws in everything in an attempt to appeal to everyone, it's gargantuan and anti-logical, pointlessly ornate and pointlessly violent. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+ Werewolf thriller set during French revolution.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie includes a fair number of scenes with copious amounts blood, gory swordfights and other very graphic violence, women in peril, and a hideous beast that terrorizes and kills dozens of people. The R-rating for this movie is appropriate both for the violence quotient and also because the movie contains a somewhat graphic sex scene in a house of ill-repute.
  • Families can talk about how the townspeople in Gevaudan dealt with the beast and its killings. How did their actions compare with the way people today would deal with a similar problem? Did the townspeople deal with their fears appropriately? What does the beast represent? Why did they pick a Native American to play one of the main character's roles? How did he compare to Gregoire de Fransac?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Not an issue
What to watch for
  • violence false4 Violence: fair number of scenes with copious amounts blood, gory swordfights and other very graphic violence.
  • sex false4 Sex: A somewhat graphic sex scene in a house of ill-repute.
  • language false0 Language: Not an issue
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not an issue
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