Circa 2025 Wolf Man starts out appropriately as a take on toxic masculinity and the long scars it leaves, with glimpses of the shadow it casts on the relationship of Blake and his wife Charlotte (a detached married couple, played wonderfully by the two restrained actors Abbott and Garner, respectively).

Does the new werewolf horror movie “Wolf Man” have sharp or dull fangs? Critics are weighing in with their thoughts.

Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man recognizes that, inner conflicts or not, all werewolf horror is essentially hairier-than-usual body horror. Except this time, you get to see its hapless hero’s metamorphosis happen in fits and starts rather than one fell swoop — all the better to push a very specific metaphor,