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Wolves

2016

Bart Freundlich

Michael Shannon, Carla Gugino, Taylor John Smith, Zazie Beetz ...

4.7

231

Drama An 18-year-old basketball star who has everything in life: captain of his team, good grades, a girlfriend, good friends... has to struggle with his father who has a gambling addiction. His mother tries to keep the family afloat but does so with great emotional and financial sacrifice.

	Media	Author	Review
		Nick Schager Variety	"It's a showcase for some fine acting and even finer basketball action, but neither are enough to cover for this story's enervating formulaic construction."
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Too cliche-ridden to have the desired bite"
		Graham Fuller Screendaily	"The on-court battles are satisfyingly fast and fierce, but the tension they generate is undercut by the labored Oedipal melodrama that contains them."
		Kimber Myers IndieWire	"Freundlich mostly succeeds in the genre mash-up approach to his film, and fans of sports movies will be able to cheer for the on-court action that is coupled with off-court drama"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Bart Freundlich (...) isn’t known for making particularly subtle movies, and 'Wolves' — for all its virtues — won’t do much to undo that reputation."

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