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The Wolf Hour

2019

Alistair Banks Griffin

Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Brennan Brown, Emory Cohen ...

4.5

516

Drama. Mystery. Thriller June was once a known counter-culture figure, but that was a decade ago. She now lives alone in her South Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world. It's the notorious "Summer of Sam" and June only has to look out of her window to see the violence escalating with the brutal summer heat. The city is on a knife's edge, a pressure-cooker about to explode into the incendiary 1977 New York blackout riots.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"It's easy enough to see what drew a talented actor like Watts to this one-note material (...) The problem is it's all too dour and ponderously portentous to pull us into her world (...) [It] feels like a B-movie"	NEU
United Kingdom	Stephen Whitty Screendaily	"You can almost feel the humidity on you (...) It’s not a pleasant place to be. But Griffin makes us feel as if we’re really there. And Watts makes us want to stay"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"A peculiar film, compelling in its way due to Watts’ tensile, committed performance (...) [It] touches on explosive ideas (...) so it’s frustrating that (...) they are handled only warily and then shoved under the floorboard"	NEU
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"All the elements seem to be there (...) but the cracks don’t make much of a mosaic (...) [It] feels more like an exercise in the psychology of unease than a full-throttle leap into it.	NEU
United States	Meredith Borders Bloody Disgusting	"A much grimier, sweatier film than any of Hitchcock’s more fastidious horror. It’s a tense movie, quiet and menacing, but it’s also one about redemption (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jason Bailey The Playlist	"Griffin’s screenplay seems unfocused and uncertain. It’s a film that demands a good deal of patience (...) and flirts with spells of outright boredom."	NEG

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