While this may be Steven C. Miller's most accomplished film to date, Werewolves is about as generic and basic as its title, playing like a hand-me-down Howling knock-off spliced with watered down Purge sensibilities...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2025

Basically The Purge with parvo.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 11, 2025

...this one stands out for its truly remarkable special effects transformations and animatronics for the lycanthropic creatures, a combination that, although with obvious limitations, is an appetizing date for lovers of the genre. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Although Werewolves boasts a gleefully silly premise and admirable practical effects and creature design, its proclivity to take itself too seriously and frequent use of distracting filmmaking choices causes it to underwhelm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2025

Frank Grillo is perfectly cast in this mash-up of The Purge and werewolves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2025

Once they are done transforming, the masks or make-up or whatever the actors are clad in are so ineffectual they end up looking like a bunch of underlit extras in Halloween costumes recreating The Purge while howling.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 14, 2025

Werewolves is a greatly fun werewolf romp with tons of violence, good beasties, and performances that work. It’s

| Dec 28, 2024

Werewolves is the kind of movie that knows it’s cheap and lame yet doesn’t understand that cheap and lame can be fun if you do it right.

| Dec 27, 2024

Werewolves is fun in an ‘Honestly, I don’t mind wasting my time’ sort of way, but ultimately, it’s utter twaddle...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2024

This action monster movie gets credit for staying small-scale—and using nifty practical werewolf effects—but it also feels unambitious, missing opportunities and ultimately feeling rather empty.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 25, 2024

A straightforward B-movie action-horror that lacks bite.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 25, 2024

A mindless B-film action horror thriller.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 23, 2024

While “Werewolves” may not be worth the ticket price and effort of going to the movie theater, at least it is often fun unlike a movie with more resources like “Kraven the Hunter” (2024).

| Dec 21, 2024

A fun throwback werewolf movie with some nice twists on the mythology.

| Original Score: B | Dec 11, 2024

It’s not a good movie, but it’s a tight little time passer. Frank Grillo, who’s at the center of it (playing a ripped bruiser who is also… a molecular biologist!), has a way of making any pulp movie better.

| Dec 10, 2024

With its ongoing variations on its elements, it is inventive and largely entertaining.

| Original Score: B | Dec 9, 2024

It's a cool set-up for a werewolf movie, but that's exactly what makes Werewolves so disappointing, as Matthew Kennedy's script does little with it. For starters, the film is extremely small in scope.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 9, 2024

The premise is quite silly, but interesting. Frank Grillo is, well, Frank Grillo. And that's a good thing. But ultimately Werewolves fall short. It's just...there. There's a small portion of bloody werewolf carnage, but not enough to fill you up.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 9, 2024

By no means the smartest and most coherent movie of the year but a real triple threat of bullet casing, bloodied knuckles, and big bad wolves. And don't pretend like you don't want to see Frank Grillo fist fight a werewolf.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 7, 2024

...a fairly irresistible (and seemingly foolproof) premise that’s squandered early and often by Miller...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 7, 2024