Temps du loup, Le 2003

Erik Lundegaard, Seattle Times: The questions the film raises are more interesting than the film itself. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Subtlety is one of the tools utilized by the brilliant Haneke, who wisely learned from the masters instead of the hacks. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: One of the most depressing, if not agonizing, movies I've ever seen. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: One of the most harrowing and plausible visions of apocalypse since George A. Romero's 1968 zombie shocker, Night of the Living Dead. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Chilly, tense corker. Read more

Martha Sheridan, Dallas Morning News: Although the scenes are often dark and shrouded in mist, the film is replete with cinematic portraiture that sears itself into memory. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: One of the best Dogma films yet. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's unclear what lessons Haneke wants us to draw from this story. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Haneke's work is always unsettling, from Funny Games to The Piano Teacher. Here, he shakes up a familiar genre so that catastrophe feels imminent even after the screen goes dark. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Time of the Wolf induces a hunger for consolation, and forces you to scavenge for scraps. Read more

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Scott Foundas, Variety: The film projects a sense of what a tiny window of time mankind has occupied in the history of the universe, and how quickly he could disappear again. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: In today's digital bog of empty light and marketing deceptions, this is what early-millennium Euro art-film masterpieces feel like -- lean, qualmish, abstracted to the point of parable but as grounded as a gravedigging. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The French-language film traipses through such familiar territory, it's hard to be as moved and devastated as we're clearly supposed to be. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: More than watchable, if less than compelling. Read more