The Wolf Hour

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The Wolf Hour

R,

2019,

1h 39m,

Mystery & Thriller

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44%

25 Reviews

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44%

Fewer than 50 Verified Ratings

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44%

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25 Reviews

44%

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Fewer than 50 Verified Ratings

An unseen tormentor harasses a reclusive author as a citywide blackout triggers fires, looting and escalating violence during the Summer of Sam in New York in 1977.

Critics Consensus

Naomi Watts gives it her all in The Wolf Hour, but it isn't enough to compensate for a film that spends too much of its runtime in search of a compelling story.

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

Apr 15, 2020

3/5

Watts is left to do the heavy lifting as she has done so often, bringing her character shimmering into life, as real as if you were there in that sweatbox apartment with her - even this far from Mulholland Drive.

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Beatrice Loayza

AV Club

Dec 9, 2019

C

The Wolf Hour begins to feel strangely like an allegory for the paranoid fears of white women in a world of scary Black men.

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Tomris Laffly

RogerEbert.com

Dec 6, 2019

2/4

Like the sheltered loner at its center, The Wolf Hour feels jailed amongst a string of half-realized ideas, too intimidated to step outside and tackle them head-on.

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

Jan 4, 2023

This is sort of like Repulsion with zero thrills or sick laughs, a glum ’70s reconstruction rendered in a decidedly contemporary way that doesn’t illuminate then or now.

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Prahlad Srihari

Firstpost

Jul 23, 2020

It draws out an exceptional performance from Watts as she sweats, shudders and strives to sustain the film for its full duration by herself...But the film really inspires more yawns than scares.

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Danny Brogan

Common Sense Media

Apr 3, 2020

2/5

Claustrophobic thriller goes nowhere despite sense of peril.

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Ron R

Feb 2, 2019

An example of a great actor working on a terrible script. The story pretends to be a complex study on humanity, but instead is a grade school hero quest story with an outstanding actor. If you like Watts then watch the first hour.

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Theodore S

Feb 2, 2019

Terrible story writing supported by an outstanding actor. Watts is outstanding, however, the writer needs to move beyond tired cliches and mimicking other stories involving a single character in isolation. He proves with this movie that he is incapable of telling such a story.

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Alistair Banks Griffin

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June Leigh

Jennifer Ehle

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Synopsis

An unseen tormentor harasses a reclusive author as a citywide blackout triggers fires, looting and escalating violence during the Summer of Sam in New York in 1977.

Director: Alistair Banks Griffin
Producer: Bailey Conway, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Bradley Pilz
Screenwriter: Alistair Banks Griffin
Distributor: Brainstorm Media
Production Co: HanWay Films, Bradley Pilz Productions, Automatik Entertainment
Rating: R (Language|Brief Sexuality/Nudity)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 6, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 10, 2020
Runtime: 1h 39m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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