Wolf

What did I just watch. MAYBE it could have been a short film...at best. I wanted to cover my ears and gouge my eyes out simultaneously, while then deleting my whole HBO Max account for allowing me to witness this fodder. The script was what you'd expect from an amateur High School theater group, desperate to prove they're edgy and avant-garde. It's one of those roles for Lily-Rose Depp that screams "I don't need nepotism, I can destroy my acting career on my own". And while I admire McKay, and love seeing his career really pick up...lately the majority of his character choices are all the same formula: awkward blank stares, moody huffing and puffing, scowling, gaunt Tim Burton-character-come-to-life energy. Was there ever really a reason for this movie? Did someone think, "You know what kind of movie we need right now?" He was a painfully awkward kid that thought he was a wolf, and that's LITERALLY the whole story.

It's like a joke wrapped in a film, wrapped in bewilderingly bad acting (but honestly, they couldn't have gone anywhere with the script and are mostly at fault for even accepting this allegorical atrocity), wrapped in a terrible story - all wrapped into utter boredom.

A really unique film for minority of people or at least those who are somehow familiar with lycanthropy. As well as Lobster, it reminds me of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest, where care-takers exhibit more brutal behavior than the patients, manifesting authoritarian societies.

Wolf is a poetic tale about the unsatisfied desire for freedom.

It was truly captivating! Loved it!

"Wolf" was super pretentious, and tries it's hardest to wiggle it's way to cult-classic status. Lily-Rose Depp does the most with this role however. There was potential to be something that a wider audience could accept and appreciate, but I think the director, Nathalie Biancheri, tries to outsmart her everyone who watches it.

The film is ultimately untranslatable to an everyday filmgoer, but there might be a small few who take something away from the concepts that are presented.

The movie is empty. For such a complex topic the movie feels very superficial. We never learn anything about the characters; no beginnings an no endings just the middle which happens to be the movie but without any substance to it.

I was expecting to at least feel something from what I had read about the premise of the movie but I was sad that I finished the movie not feeling moved by it.

Such a waste of what could have been.