Venice 2024: First Reactions to George Clooney - Brad Pitt Action Comedy WOLFS

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The Venice Film Festival got underway earlier this week, and reactions to some of the highly-anticipated world premieres are starting to arrive.

In this John Watts-directed action comedy, a professional fixer is hired to cover up a high-profile crime. But when a second fixer shows up and the two “lone wolves” are forced to work together, they find their night spiralling out of control in ways that neither of them expected.

WOLFS is written and directed by Watts, and stars Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, Poorna Jagannathan, Zlatko Burić, and Richard Kind.

The film world premiered in Venice today, and will have a limited theatrical release in the US on September 20th, 2024, followed by a worldwide launch on Apple TV+ on September 27th.

Here are the first reactions out of Venice:

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'Wolfs' Review: Brad Pitt and George Clooney Reunite for a Cunning Caper That Never Takes Itself Too Seriously — Sometimes to a Fault https://t.co/3JwY5salRX

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 1, 2024

'Wolfs' Venice Review: George Clooney and Brad Pitt hit the comedy bullseye as two solitary fixers forced to work together says @leenelmezzo #Venezia81 #Wolfs https://t.co/M89YY19kXN

— Screen International (@Screendaily) September 1, 2024

'Wolfs' Review: Brad Pitt And George Clooney Face Off As Aging Fixers In Jon Watts' Verbose Action Comedy – Venice Film Festival https://t.co/GIzchrCVbD

— Deadline (@DEADLINE) September 1, 2024

‘Wolfs’ Review: George Clooney and Brad Pitt. That’s It. That’s the Movie. https://t.co/eJND5pTf3N

— TheWrap (@TheWrap) September 1, 2024

Wolfs review – Pitt and Clooney are job-sharing loners in Spidey-meme of a thriller https://t.co/Ds7CxHgvW2

— Guardian culture (@guardianculture) September 1, 2024

Jon Watts rediscovers his filmmaking joie de vivre with the classic comic thriller “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as a pair of lone-working fixers who find themselves cleaning up the same mess when hired for the same job.

Our review: https://t.co/IL4qYiVRnw pic.twitter.com/pnA2Xwcuhb

— IndieWire (@IndieWire) September 1, 2024

George Clooney and Brad Pitt Work Better Together in Wolfs https://t.co/kqxOQcT7eq

— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) September 1, 2024

‘Wolfs’ Venice Film Festival Review: It’s the George Clooney/Brad Pitt show … and little else https://t.co/L6Lxj2QLUc pic.twitter.com/EJ9px8h6NB

— Decider (@decider) September 1, 2024

“Wolfs” was a Venice Film Festival disappointment. It turns out that star power is not enough when those stars are auto-piloting their way through their new movie.https://t.co/9P005StMV0

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 1, 2024

WOLFS: Coming on like Michael Clayton meets Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and with enough star-wattage between its leads to light up the whole of Times Square, this enjoyably knockaround action farce is a cinematic pick-me-up with plenty of heart. 🐺 #Venezia81https://t.co/KGvG4AViO6

— Whitlock And Pope 🏳️‍⚧️ (@WhitlockAndPope) September 1, 2024

As someone who watched WOLFS in a theater at #Venezia81, WOLFS should’ve been released in theatershttps://t.co/qa2bJGas4g

— Alex Harrison (@akharrison98) September 1, 2024

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Check out the Wolfs official trailer: