Wolf (CREDIT: Focus Features)
Starring: George MacKay, Lily-Rose Depp, Paddy Considine, Eileen Walsh
Director: Nathalie Biancheri
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Rating: R
Release Date: December 3, 2021 (Theaters)
Wolf is basically what I’ve been waiting for ever since I started reviewing movies by asking myself if I wanted to do what’s being offered in the title. This is a movie about a human man who believes that he’s a wolf! Do I also want to be a wolf, even if only for a little while? That might be fun, but that’s not exactly what this movie is really about … or is it? Jacob (George MacKay) sure looks like a Homo sapien, as do all of his fellow patients at the facility where they’re being treated for species identity disorder. But there are moments that really make you wonder if a lupine soul somehow did find its way into a human vessel. Alas, the abusive tactics reminiscent of troubled youth programs practiced by the facility’s director aren’t likely to help us find any answers. Anyway, I quite enjoyed Wolf introducing me to a whole new world and would have liked to have been able to explore it even more (the ending’s a little abrupt).
Grade: 7 Howls out of 10 Whiskers
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