The sharp feminist narrative makes up for the admirable but underwhelming werewolf makeup and other practical effects.

A smart, resourceful, and wickedly funny teen-horror film that reinvents the werewolf myth as a potent metaphor for pubescent angst and humiliation.

A quietly subversive my-sister-is-turning-into-a-werewolf movie that doesn't wimp out at the end.

Notable for...its practical effects, the obvious parallels between puberty and becoming a werewolf, the peak 2000s...soundtrack, but what’s most memorable is that the fundamental relationship in the film is between [sisters] Brigitte and Ginger.