The Wolfpack

Fascinating subject, that the film unfortunately stays only on the surface on. Particularly the father would have needed a lot more screen time.

A pretty sloppy and underwhelming piece of filmmaking, but there's enough intrigue in the story and the metatextual elements of it to keep it from ever being truly boring. Still, it feels like it's too surface-level, and clumsy when it's trying to be profound, and somehow manages to never really answer any of the questions we have about these people. So maybe it is a failure? I don't know.

Felt like it had promise, but did not deliver. It explored the relationship with the father, but not in a way that ever felt insightful at all. Their obsession with film was interesting, but not enough to support an otherwise empty documentary.

Was worried it'd just be this goofy story about a bunch of kids recreating Tarantino movies, but it's actually a strong story of emotional abuse and independence.

Interesting documentary about a group of brothers living in a low-income apartment in NYC, who are obsessed with movies. Home schooled and rarely allowed to leave, they escaped into the world of movies, memorizing and acting them out.

Interesting, sometimes poignant documentary. Could have dug deeper and been more effective, but it’s very watchable, and one does root for its protagonists.

I found their immersion and dedication into film fascinating, but as others have mentioned, it really seemed to miss the massive elephant in the corner of the insane father. It's practically begging for it at one point when he says something cryptic then unleashes some creepy horror movie laugh.

great doc

Fascinating subjects, but the film fails in nearly every possible way.

A urban and troubling tale of isolation and modern fears while it truly appreciate the love for films. There's a strong and fascinating bond between the siblings and their mother, their childhood are both disturbing and fascinating. But the director is too careful when they start too peel away the layers, as there's clearly something more powerful that they won't reveal.

A very interesting film. It could have been deeper explored though.

The important themes -- the cathartic or emancipatory power of art, the isolation and loneliness caused by emotional abuse, how beholden we are to whoever (or whatever) is socializing us -- slip through one's fingers like sand. We are left with musical montages and feel-good bullshit. A disservice to its subjects.

Not as effective as it could have been, especially when you consider the siblings' rather disturbing upbringing. Occasionally, the film seems to hint at something deeper, yet never really develops any of its more insightful story threads - such as the bits with their no-good bum of a father - into anything impactful. Still there's nothing like seeing a bunch of film-obsessed geeks care so passionately about cinema. Be sure to check out the clip of them raiding the Criterion closet, great stuff.

Ein Film, motiviert durch blosses Glück. Regisseurin Crystal Moselle ging die Strasse entlang, als sechs junge Männer mit schwarzen Anzügen und Sonnenbrillen ihr entggegen kamen. Moselle drehte sich instinktiv um und fragte die Sechs nach ihrer Geschichte: Die Angulo Brüder führten sie in ihr winziges Apartment.. mehr auf cinegeek.de

Not much here, leaves you wanting more.

Such an interesting documentary subject, but just terrible, terrible execution. There's so much going on that the director never chooses to look more closely at, and then the movie just sort of ends. Really disappointing use of a supremely interesting family.

A very interesting story, and these kids are surprisingly eloquent, but it's amateurishly made, and it has an air of disingenuity. I felt like I was only seeing one side of the coin.

Another documentary filled with half-truths and of debatable veracity generally told with no film-making skill so we have to sit through long languorous shots of nothing much going on. This is one of those stories that would be better told in the form an article which may possibly give us the whole truth rather than this mish-mash of truth and invention

Quite the fascinating story for this documentary, we seem to dive right into this claustrophobic setting and watch as these brothers emerge, showing us their exact moments of coming of age. Although some of the elements aren't quite satisfying, like how exactly their reenactments of films make them feel freer, this is endlessly interesting and a bit disturbing.

I didn't know I had relatives in America.

Decent execution, great subject.

Better than most of the movies they reenact.