Wolfs, featuring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, releases today in select theaters in the U.S. before debuting on Apple TV Plus on September 27, 2024. The reviews for the Jon Watts directorial venture are here, and they are mixed to positive at best, leading to mediocre scores on both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.
Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s Wolfs reviews are mixed
Wolfs had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, on September 1, 2024, and has since garnered mostly lukewarm responses. The movie revolves around two lone wolf fixers who are hired for the same job and now must find a way to work together.
Adam Graham of Detroit News gave Wolfs a negative review, claiming that the movie doesn’t offer the viewers “anything to howl about.”
Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that the movie was aware that it’s a “trifle,” adding that it “is an excuse for its two leads to riff on their own personas, which can be faintly amusing and certainly watchable but also insufferably smug. It’s insufferable a lot.”
Kyle Smith of The Wall Street Journal remarked that the plot beats in Wolfs “are so dull, contrived and poorly engineered (for a few minutes the wolves must pretend to be rivals who don’t know each other) that the movie becomes an onerous chore comparable to the one that launches the action.”
In contrast, Variety’s Owen Gleiberman praised the chemistry between the two leads before stating that Wolfs was ultimately a “well-made throwaway” movie. “Wolfs looks the essence of a classy, witty, stylish entertainment,” Gleiberman wrote. “It looks downright old-fashioned (in a good way). But as a movie, which will indeed play in theaters, it is, in the end, a well-made throwaway, no more and no less,” he added.
Apple TV’s Wolfs starts with middling Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores
Wolfs has garnered a 68% approval rating on the review aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes after 57 reviews. Meanwhile, it currently has a score of 60 out of 100 on Metacritic, which considers a weighted average to rate a movie, after 32 reviews, showing a “mixed or average” response.
