…better than a dire reputation suggests; it’s clearly a loving attempt to revise a classic story, with top talent all on message, and a few neat moments for genre fans to enjoy, even if the final wolf-on-wolf fight is risible…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2024

Where the film suffers is its lack of involvement in the crucial levels of emotion and suspense, the driving forces of the original film. Had those essential elements of the story been developed further, this would be an effortless recommendation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 22, 2023

Those hoping for a knockabout action movie in the mould of the similarly set Sherlock Holmes will be sorely disappointed by this po-faced, moody, broody and sometimes slow film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2022

Visually, this film gets a lot of things right - from fog-filled forests and sinister mansions to terrifying transformations and gruesome gore.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 30, 2020

The man-to-werewolf transformations [are] gruesomely spectacular and the subsequent slayings are even more grisly. Unfortunately, similar violence appears to have been wreaked on the script.

| Nov 29, 2020

Only one scene genuinely entertains, a scene taking place as a full moon approaches with Lawrence Talbot smack dab in the middle of a medical theatre.

| Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

A shame that when the leery lycanthrope isn't cutting people to shreds, the story never quite cuts it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 6, 2020

[T]his Wolfman has rather more bark than bite.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2019

There are elements here that seem to have been on the right track - the visual design and Danny Elfman's score are all excellent - but it is all completely mishandled on nearly every conceivable level.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 7, 2019

This is a film that revels in its schlock, and does so in a manner that is sure to please anyone looking for a bloody good time.

| Original Score: B | May 10, 2019

All over the place and bland at the same time.

| May 25, 2018

Even with its seasoned A-list cast, The Wolfman doesn't quite conjure the dark angst and the suggestive sensuousness of the Victorian horror tales it was inspired by.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 6, 2018

Sure, it's more sinister and gory (ridiculously so at times), but Del Toro's acting is a standout.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 11, 2017

The Wolfman attempts to recapture the old school feel of monster movies, but ends up coming across as a film that was patched together by a group of people with very different ideas of what they wanted from it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2017

Who would have thought that only six weeks into 2010 we would have a contender for worst film of the year?

| Sep 15, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2012

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

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 31, 2012

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

| Feb 10, 2012

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.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

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

| Original Score: B | Nov 5, 2011