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Werewolf Reviews
Ashley McKenzie... she crafts a quietly devastating story of addiction, recovery, and relapse that portrays its subjects with both compassion and blunt honesty.
| Feb 11, 2021
Werewolf is a gripping film that avoids poverty porn by asking real moral and personal questions. McKenzie's camera doesn't feel exploitative either.
| Jul 23, 2020
The film is a rarity, a Canadian film about the working class, the poor.
| Jul 8, 2020
McKenzie used non-professional actors for Werewolf and the strategy pays off handsomely.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2020
Werewolf is a beautiful look at what people can do under the most gruesome of circumstances.
| Mar 1, 2019
The film is at many times hard to watch, but its nuanced character development makes it a story worth telling.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 26, 2018
Emotionally disturbing and authentic, this is a film that exemplifies the potential of the woman behind the camera by showing the potential of a woman in a harrowing circumstance taking the first steps toward recovery.
| Aug 3, 2018
Scene by scene, what McKenzie is after is capturing the process of a young woman walling herself off from sentimental appeal in order to save her own life, steeling herself for the long walk away from the wreck of her man.
| Mar 8, 2018
Her characters are a little too blank to sustain interest through an entire film, but this modest indie generates a haunting mood of 21st-century despair.
| Mar 2, 2018
The performers don't seem like they're acting at all, which contributes to the film's unsettling power.
| Feb 28, 2018
Werewolf unmistakably announces McKenzie as a potentially significant new voice, gifted enough to make well-trod ground seem newly landscaped.
| Original Score: B | Feb 28, 2018
Its story may be thin, its characters not particularly original, but McKenzie's use of cinematic language is savvy and novel, finding complexity where others might find only emptiness.
| Feb 27, 2018
Working with the cinematographer Scott Moore, McKenzie frames her characters with a radical obliqueness, visually conveying their wounded tenderness and stifled fury and evoking mortal struggles with minuscule gestures.
| Feb 26, 2018
The film achieves a strange irony, as its formal abstractions serve to heighten our emotional connection to the characters.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 25, 2018
The finely gradated interactions between the protagonists and different representatives of various institutional establishments place empathy and ambivalence side by side.
| Sep 28, 2017
Ashley McKenzie's Werewolf is one of the strongest Canadian films you'll see this year.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 7, 2017
McKenzie doesn't stoop to deliver a pat happy ending, and even the moderately upbeat final scene features an oddly discordant note in the score that suggests not all is well.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 2, 2017
In plumbing the pitch black, Werewolf offers the distinct hope of a brighter future - at least, a brighter future for Canadian cinema.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 2, 2017
McKenzie has effectively drawn us in, although lack of narrative makes the film frustratingly slow in spots.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 1, 2017