The Hollywood Reporter
Excellent performances from Michael Shannon, Carla Gugino and young newcomer Taylor John Smith aren't enough to offset the narrative clichés of Bart Freundlich's (The Myth of Fingerprints) drama about a high school basketball star struggling with family dysfunction. Combining '70s era, gritty urban tropes with plot elements that would have seemed corny in old Warner Brothers melodramas, Wolves, receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, feels familiar every step of the way even while exuding a unearned sense of self-importance.
"The Graduates," thankfully avoids showing a school shooting, but what's left leaves you wanting more.
In “You Can Live Forever,” faith conflicts with sexuality as a Jehovah’s Witness girl falls for another girl who is by no means questioning their sexuality.
Among Universal Studios' classic movie monsters, the Wolf Man is unique. Unlike Dracula, Fran kenstein, the Invisible Man, and the Phantom of the Opera, The Wolf Man isn't based on a work of classic literature. However, the tragic tale of Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) and his endless search to free himself of his werewolf curse is so compelling that it has influenced many popular perceptions of werewolves.
