These questions are subsumed in The Wolfpack's stunning testament to the redemptive power of cinema.

| Mar 28, 2017

A documentary that goes beyond the old stranger-than-fiction cliché into the realm of the genuinely perplexing.

| Feb 29, 2016

he Wolfpack transcends mere social-issue concerns. It becomes a coming-of-age movie with monumental stakes -- and a strangely vibrant look at the liberating power of creativity.

| Dec 7, 2015

The Wolfpack walks a perilous line in documentary ethics, but there's no question it is one of the most confronting and confounding true stories in a long time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2015

Named after Hindu deities, the six boys (their sister is barely glimpsed on camera) prove easy company - attractive, articulate, and engagingly enthusiastic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2015

The Wolfpack ends up being a rare work that deserves the most sentimental of recommendations: it is a hymn to the resilience of the human spirit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2015

It comes across as a life-affirming story of how people can not just survive but thrive even through such a bizarre upbringing, above all though the life-enhancement of film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2015

The film remains a testament to movie love, and how acculturated, against all odds, you could become on a steady diet of Hollywood product.

| Aug 21, 2015

The brothers have an effortless charisma and any time spent in their company cannot help but be fascinating.

| Aug 20, 2015

The story that emerged, when she won their confidence, is the kind of once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that every factual filmmaker dreams of and very rarely stumbles across.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2015

Too many questions are ultimately left unanswered, but it's a real kick ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2015

A profoundly compelling yet far-from-unimpeachable piece of doc making.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2015

A compelling glimpse into a bizarre, hermetically sealed life. The brothers are easy to warm to, and the family's slow introduction into the outside world is quietly moving.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2015

Moselle's affection for these tough-talking whelps brings you gradually, optimistically, inside their world of gritty make-believe, and you root for them to take their lives conclusively into their own hands.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2015

A remarkable New York story, one made with a pinch of tabloid exposé and another of sociological experiment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2015

Everything about The Wolfpack is extraordinary, beginning with the subjects of Crystal Moselle's mesmerizing documentary.

| Jul 17, 2015

The boys are bright and funny, and when they do go out together - shades on, long hair flowing down rail-thin bodies - they look like a somewhat awkward but cool rock band you'd like to get to know. Moselle's documentary is the next best thing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2015

It all adds up to a story of the human spirit's ability to survive and even thrive despite twisted circumstance.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 26, 2015

It's stunning (and amazingly well done) and hard to believe. Yet it's all true, as far as we know.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2015

Undeniably fascinating.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 19, 2015