Tense, twisted, and, oddly enough, startlingly funny. Big Bad Wolves grabs you from the opening and drags you, often kicking and screaming, along for the ride.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 8, 2020

Unfortunately, ambition, ambiguity and scale prevent Big Bad Wolves from complete success.

| Original Score: 2.8/5 | Nov 21, 2019

[T]he result is a beautifully crafted, morally ambiguous fairy tale for the modern age, from two refreshing new voices in Israeli cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 23, 2019

Extremely sophisticated in its visuals and in its narrative... if you get the chance to see Big Bad Wolves, eat it up.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 16, 2019

Big Bad Wolves is certainly a film that gets its point across in a very satisfying way

| Sep 3, 2019

Big Bad Wolves tries to raise questions about the use of torture and vengeance, but these are questions that have been explored before in far better films.

| Original Score: 5.8/10 | Jun 22, 2019

Keshales and Papushado expertly manipulate the moving dynamics of the situation to create an atmosphere in which audience allegiance shifts from scene to scene.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2019

There is a sense that Keshales and Papushado's bloody tale falls just short of the mark, arriving somewhat lethargically at a dissatisfying conclusion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2019

Deftly balancing genres, it's a remarkable script that never misses a beat, truly belying the writers' inexperience.

| Feb 28, 2019

Big Bad Wolves includes a good amount of humor in the dialogue, but never at the expense of the victims or the plot.

| Aug 21, 2018

The problem that comes with Big Bad Wolves is that its excessive violence is too intrinsically tied to questions of morality to simply create excuses of "it's just entertainment."

| Original Score: D | Jun 29, 2016

At moments it's fun to watch the psychological drama unfold, and Grad is especially good as the vengeful father, but much of the movie is stomach-churning and visually flat.

| Mar 1, 2016

A dark, captivating, and thoroughly fascinating piece of genre filmmaking.

| Aug 24, 2015

As dark comedies go, this is about as dark as it gets. The acting and stunt work are very solid. I can't say I enjoyed this, but the film is thought-provoking, occasionally funny, and it does raise some interesting moral questions.

| Original Score: B | Jan 1, 2015

A grisly off-beat moralistic Israeli thriller about a suspected serial rapist killer being tortured by a cop and the victim's father.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 5, 2014

Wolves should appeal to fans of filmmakers such as Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Sep 7, 2014

Despite its impressive intuition, inventiveness and staging, Big Bad Wolves remains a rather forgettable anecdote instead of a truly blood-freezing, Hitchcockian thriller.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 13, 2014

A suspenseful, violent horror film that touches on the inner lives of sexual predators, the question of guilt and remorse in the human soul, and the practice of torture.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 7, 2014

Dreary, anti-septic and overwhelmingly glum, marching down a predictable narrative path without much in the way of enlightening ethical inquiry.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 31, 2014

One thing that's indisputable about Big Bad Wolves: It's a slick piece of genre craftsmanship, a stylish, drum-tight thriller that magnifies the ugly extremes of crime and retribution.

| Original Score: 3.0/5 | Jan 31, 2014