In the end, though the performances are memorable, it’s the parts that don’t work (including unintentionally funny moments) that outdo the more effective ones.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 17, 2025

Ultimately the best one can say of the film is that those involved tried their best, but that it simply didn’t work out.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 18, 2023

It's a mess, but it's a fascinating mess.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2023

All this could have been a lot of fun, especially as Nicholson has a face made for wolfish grins. But, though there is a fleeting return to humor at the end, Wolf never recovers from its makers' decision to try to make it serious and scary.

| Jan 10, 2023

The unlikely couple combine talents on screen to put a new twist on a classic story.

| May 16, 2022

[Wolf] is deliciously rich entertainment -- with elements of a scary thriller, a Beauty and the Beast romance, a corporate satire and a witty inquiry into the nature of disease and sexual aggression.

| Dec 22, 2021

...a watchable yet disappointing endeavor that generally feels as though it should be much, much better...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2021

It's an extremely mature werewolf movie... The film is actually kind of funny.

| Original Score: B | Oct 8, 2020

In the end, Wolf loses any trace of subtlety and becomes quite silly, a veritable monster mash. It seems everybody's eyes are turning wolfen green.

| May 29, 2018

Much of Wolf can be devoured with pleasure. To be more interested in philanthropy than lycanthropy may be a fault to the good.

| Nov 30, 2017

The film isn't a waste of time, and works rather well for about two- thirds of its length as a comedy of business life. For a horror film or a serious exploration of the divided nature of modern man, you need to look elsewhere.

| Nov 15, 2017

A fine little fable of business world mores that has the gross misfortune to turn into a horror film at a time when nobody quite knew what horror was.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 16, 2014

A guaranteed good time for anyone looking for a different kind of horror film...

| Oct 27, 2010

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]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 26, 2009

With the always edgy, slightly demonic, and predictably unpredictable Jack Nicholson as the wolf man, it actually works . . . almost.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 16, 2009

Glossy werewolf horror/comedy that fails to make its mark on the genre.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 12, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 5, 2008

Worth it to see Nicholson the wolf in fang-to-fang battle.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2007

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.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 21, 2006

Up until the rote ending, an elegant and witty take on the werewolf story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2006