Not every move Moselle makes is successful — but she has tremendous footage and largely does right by it.

| Jan 23, 2023

The material speaks volumes to those who spend their lives in darkened places before flickering images, but 'The Wolfpack' is an amateurish movie at best.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2021

In any event, The Wolfpack still intrigues, largely because of the Angulo boys' liveliness and tenacity.

| Feb 26, 2021

Sad and strange, funny and touching, wholly unusual and like nothing you've ever seen before, The Wolfpack is both powerful and unsettling.

| Original Score: B | Jul 5, 2020

At no point The Wolfpack comes across as patronizing. For the most part, the filmmaker treats the kids as peers and, in turn, the Angulos reward Moselle with endearing openness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2020

The Wolfpack is thought-provoking and sometimes touching, but there is a nagging sense that Moselle didn't dig deep enough into the abusive situation.

| Jan 10, 2020

The Wolfpack is half about the burden of having a terrible human being for a parent and half about the ability of art to save souls. It is powerful, gripping and not to be missed.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 30, 2019

The Wolfpack is an intriguing portrait of an accidental social experiment, but the narrative created to support it is too disjointed and skin-deep to really resonate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2019

Director Crystal Moselle gained remarkable access, both to the Angulo boys and to their library of home movies, but The Wolfpack is largely about the triumph of a fascinating subject over a pedestrian treatment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2019

Blurs the traditional border between documentary filmmaker and subject, as director Crystelle Moselle captures the quotidian details of family dysfunction with intimacy, but also discretion.

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

THE WOLFPACK is as intriguing as it is unbelievable. A paranoid immigrant, his pliant wife and their seven children live in self-imposed confinement, in the middle of New York City.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2018

How weird and riveting and creepily fantastic a new documentary about an eccentric and lavishly haired family living in New York is.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2018

Equally disturbing, funny and heart-warming, there's no movie quite like The Wolfpack out there. It has to be seen to be believed.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 2, 2018

The Wolfpack works best when the subjects are being let out into the world to experience things for the first time, displaying how their massive knowledge of cinema has drilled unbelievable visions of the outside world into their heads

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 3, 2017

The result is a multi-layered narrative, slightly tricky and elusive in form, but with subjects who are refreshingly, touchingly frank.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2017

It's cute, funny, and sad.

| Aug 21, 2017

Like the boys, [The Wolfpack] is a powerful force to be reckoned with-and one that should be seen by all.

| Aug 11, 2017

Under the guise of cinéma vérité, Moselle has stitched together a dreamy reverie that, if not a put-on, fetishizes a dangerously dysfunctional situation. Clearly I'm in the minority... but this feels like the worst kind of "noble savage" filmmaking.

| Aug 2, 2017

The collaboration between the boys and the filmmaker delivers The Wolfpack with a palpable degree of honesty and compassion.

| Jun 20, 2017

What The Wolfpack makes very clear is the way the movies, and the imagination and empathy involved in watching and making movies, helped these boys survive their difficult, claustrophobic childhood, make some sense of their bizarre history.

| May 8, 2017