The Wolfman

...constitutes a pleasant surprise, if "pleasant" can be used to describe a brooding $100 million-plus diversion with this many beheadings and eviscerations.

—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune

Outstanding production design and heavy doses of gore render this a gleefully gothic tale, though the story could have used a bit more attention.

—Luke Y. Thompson E!

...[has] the kind of authentic emotional hook that too many horror movies today don't have.

—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly

...makes a satisfactory date movie for Valentine's Day, which is more than can be said for Valentine's Day.

—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times

...a strange beast. Think of another popcorn movie in which you'd have a relatively happy ending if only the hero killed himself in Act 2.

—Kyle Smith New York Post

...an attempt to reinvent the monster movie, which we're all about. It's too bad it couldn't have been contemporized.

—John DeVore Premiere

Not bad enough to be considered a camp, guilty pleasure, it's more of a dull, defanged dirge with the reliably intriguing Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins turning in oddly disaffected performances.

—Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter

The flaw of Wolfman is that it's almost too respectful of the lore. It believes what its peddling regarding silver bullets, ivory fangs, full moons, and peat-mossed British moors soaked in crimson blood. But it's faithful at the expense of any fun.

—Sean O'Connell filmcritic.com

...overheated...

—Keith Phipps Onion AV Club

...struggles to stay true to its pulpy B-movie roots while fulfilling the commercial imperatives of a modern, large-scale commercial entertainment.

—A . O. Scott New York Times

...bafflingly inert.

—Ernest Hardy LA Weekly

Here's the surprise of the new incarnation of The Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro -- there isn't one.

—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times

...a high-toned, bloody but otherwise bloodless effort to resurrect one of Universal's venerable horror franchises for modern times.

—Todd McCarthy Variety

...bites, but not -- I think -- in the way the filmmakers intended.

—Peter Travers Rolling Stone

...bafflingly inert.

—Ernest Hardy Village Voice

There's not much to recommend this dull, cheerless and not very scary re-imagining of the classic 1941 film.

— USA Today

...I laughed at the monster. That's deadlier than a silver bullet.

—Tom Gliatto People

...awkward and dumbfounding, for there's no joy to the way Johnston's dreary hack job clunkily dishes out exposition, gracelessly cobbles together its scenes, cheapily attempts to scare us, and lazily rests on the laurels of crude makeup and visual effect work that would have you believe there haven't been any advances in these crafts since Lon Cheney Jr. donned latex for the part of the wolfman he famously played in George Waggner's 1941 film of the same name.

—Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine