'Ginger Snaps' offers a more grounded and relatable take on the teen wolf archetype.

Full Review | Oct 25, 2024

The film’s legacy is rightly tied to its themes about womanhood and puberty, but what makes it a gripping watch is its raw and authentic story about two strongly written and aptly performed characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 23, 2024

It deftly combines a werewolf flick with a coming-of-age tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2024

There's a nice undercurrent of black humor that mines absurdities from an adolescent perspective, but this is no 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

Full Review | Oct 28, 2023

A werewolf coming-of-age tale about two sisters on the brink of womanhood, Ginger Snaps has a complex subtextual queerness...

Full Review | Oct 27, 2022

A coming-of-age-via-werewolf-transformation tale with a lot more on its mind than just blood and gore.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 29, 2020

The sharp feminist narrative makes up for the admirable but underwhelming werewolf makeup and other practical effects.

Full Review | Sep 25, 2018

An uncommonly intelligent fright film, one that unnerves you at a very deep, primal level.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2014

A witty and intelligent exploration of what it means to become and live as a woman in middle-class suburbia.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2013

Not squeamish? Like monsters? Go see.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2013

A smart, resourceful, and wickedly funny teen-horror film that reinvents the werewolf myth as a potent metaphor for pubescent angst and humiliation.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2013

In this highly sophisticated and disturbing Canadian horror movie, director John Fawcett transcends the banality of the werewolf formula with verve, well-paced action and genuine terror.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2013

John Fawcett has directed "Ginger Snaps" with terrific flair, punctuating ominous moods with bursts of pitch-dark humor.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2013

Very, very violent horror flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2011

A remarkable and excellent werewolf thriller that's equal parts creepy, funny, and tragic.

Full Review | Apr 29, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

A stunning teen angst/werewolf film from 2001, this was the best lycanthrope movie since An American Werewolf in London.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 18, 2008

Successfully operates on dual levels -- as a horror movie and as a study of two sisters.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Feb 14, 2008

The movie is much at its best when dealing merely with suspicions, rather than when later laying out the lycanthropy and laying on the gore.

Full Review | Sep 24, 2007

At last a horror film with real bite.

Full Review | Sep 24, 2007