Metacritic Film

Wolves of Kromer, The

Starring Rita Davies, Matthew Dean, Rosemarie Dunham, and Boy George

MPAA RATING: Not rated

First Run Features
Drama
82 minutes | Color
UK
Released In Theaters October 20, 2000

Where Agatha Christie meets the Brothers Grimm. This is both black comedy and love story and it is from these surprising juxtapositions that the film derives its vitality and unique sparkle. (Discodog Productions)

WRITTEN BY
Charles Lambert
Matthew Read

DIRECTED BY
Will Gould

Overall Metascore

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

38 / 100

Critic Reviews

60	TV Guide Totally daft and a lot of fun.
59	Mr. Showbiz A bit too bloodless to howl about.
50	Village Voice Largely inept and weirdly endearing.
50	New York Daily News This Grimm-influenced fairy tale has a contemporary twist and the best of intentions, and that's about all there is to say for it.
50	Film.com An odd, sweet and relatively innocuous little fairytale.
50	San Francisco Chronicle The wolf-homosexual analogy is well drawn, but Wolves ultimately feels slight, a tad unfinished -- as if it were conceived as a sketch and hadn't been fleshed out to feature length.
25	San Francisco Examiner Has no intention of taking a more sophisticated path to make its point.
25	New York Post Abysmal performances, limp direction (Will Gould) and a heavy-handed script drive a stake through a semi-interesting idea about the persecution of gay werewolves in a remote English village.
20	The New York Times Silly, heavy-handed film.

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