Metacritic Film

10th & Wolf

Starring James Marsden, Giovanni Ribisi, Brad Renfro, Piper Perabo, Dennis Hopper, Lesley Ann Warren, Tommy Lee, Brian Dennehy, and Val Kilmer

MPAA RATING: R for strong brutal violence, pervasive language, some drug content and sexuality/nudity

ThinkFilm
Crime  |  Drama
110 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters August 18, 2006

A Philadelphia mob war is the backdrop of 10th and Wolf, a mythic story that tests the boundaries of loyalty versus betrayal, good versus evil, innocence versus corruption. (ThinkFilm)

WRITTEN BY
Robert Moresco
Allan Steele

DIRECTED BY
Robert Moresco

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

36 / 100

Critic Reviews

63 TV Guide
The narrative is cluttered with backstory, and the endless digressions overwhelm the efforts of a generally strong cast.
50 New York Daily News
At this late date, filmmakers who draw inspiration from the Mafia had better have a whole new angle to offer. Otherwise, they'll end up with a movie like 10th & Wolf.
50 Variety
A lackluster actioner.
50 The New York Times
The characters never transcend the clichés embedded in the culture since "The Godfather."
50 The Hollywood Reporter
A routine mob thriller.
42 The Onion (A.V. Club)
It isn't exactly a waste of time, but anyone who's seen a mob movie or TV show in the past 30 years has pretty much seen 10th & Wolf.
38 New York Post
Solid cast notwithstanding, 10th and Wolf is a generic, direct-to-video-grade gangster movie.
38 Philadelphia Inquirer
"The Godfather" without Brando, "GoodFellas" without Scorsese, "The Sopranos" without Gandolfini - 10th & Wolf is all that, and less.
33 Entertainment Weekly
At least Ribisi's fake-cojones histrionics are fun. The rest of this "Donnie Brasco" knockoff, with James Marsden as a Gulf War veteran who goes undercover, is a turgid, ketchup-spattered dud.
10 Village Voice
A hellish and unconvincing celebration of badda-bing-ness.

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