The Wolf Hour begins to feel strangely like an allegory for the paranoid fears of white women in a world of scary Black men.
Read full articleAlistair Banks Griffin's take on a young agoraphobic woman in the crescendoing height of summer, chaos flounders, yet delivers audiences with a thriller that is sure to satisfy.
Read full article... crafts an intriguing protagonist without giving her a compelling story to inhabit.
Read full articleLike the sheltered loner at its center, The Wolf Hour feels jailed amongst a string of half-realized ideas, too intimidated to step outside and tackle them head-on.
Read full articleIt's Watts who keeps this movie interesting enough to maintain our investment, wallowing in June's sadness, fear, and anxiety...
Read full articleThis movie is mostly just mood-setting, with much more going on in the background than the foreground.
Read full article[Watts] deserves an A for effort in a vehicle that rates a D for dreary, desolate and depressing. The rest of The Wolf Hour deserves an F for forget it.
Read full articleA sometimes punishingly theatrical experiment that teeters on the verge of surreality, transfixing us with the promise of something terrible lurking just beyond those ratty curtains.
Read full articleThe film is all surface, and its depiction of trauma becomes increasingly exploitative and hollow as it moves along.
Read full articleA claustrophobic, theatrical, psychological thriller that brings out the best of Naomi Watts.
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