Ginger Snaps 2000

Dave Kehr, New York Times: Fawcett is fundamentally a sly, dry satirist, with a distinct sensibility and a promising talent of his own. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A superbly realized take on the perils of being different in a world that demands conformity. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: A smart, resourceful, and wickedly funny teen-horror film that reinvents the werewolf myth as a potent metaphor for pubescent angst and humiliation. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: It deserves a cult following among satire-loving, feminist-minded gore aficionados who appreciate a well-made human tail. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Canada. Werewolves. It's the smartest and funniest scary movie in a long time -- and a true feminist horror film. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The best teenage werewolf movie ever made. Read more

Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: The ideas are thin, and the scene-by-scene execution of them is bumbling. Read more

Tom Charity, Time Out: This isn't just a good horror movie, it's a good movie. Period. Read more

Derek Elley, Variety: A quietly subversive my-sister-is-turning-into-a-werewolf movie that doesn't wimp out at the end. Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: The linkage between puberty and lycanthropy ... is imagined with enough savage wit to count as an act of genre resuscitation. Read more