Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The Wolfpack is a reminder that much of the "crap" we decry has the potential to liberate, offering a bridge off the island of terror we call the nuclear family.

Name : John DeFore / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Scratching the surface of a story one suspects is a good deal thornier than what's explicitly shown here, Crystal Moselle's The Wolfpack introduces a gang of siblings who have been raised in near-complete isolation in downtown Manhattan.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
A Manhattan fable about fear

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Even in the context of Tolstoy's famous dictum that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, the story of the Angulo brothers stands out.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
We are presented with something peculiar, that's noteworthy mainly for it's just being weird. Frankly, it's not weird enough to completely engage viewers for more than 90 minutes.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
Filmmaker Crystal Moselle has seized onto terrifically compelling material, and while she hangs back with admirable distance, Grey Gardens-like, you wonder how she earned the Angulos' trust.

Name : Simon Houpt / Alias : Globe and Mail
If the film is patchy, it shows promise. Thankfully, so do the boys themselves.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
What starts as a nonfiction mood piece grows frustratingly opaque as the brothers begin to venture out into the real world, meet girls, and get jobs.

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
There is much to enjoy in director Crystal Moselle's debut documentary feature, which if nothing else begs a where-are-they-now sequel a few years down the road.

Name : Katharine Pushkar / Alias : New York Daily News
There is a train-wreck quality to this film. The story is so astounding, you can't look away.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
A strange and fascinating experience; you feel like you've been given entry into a mysterious world, where no one else is permitted.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
Their virtual imprisonment has shaped but not ruined them, and we slowly see them venture into the wilds of regular existence.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
Undeniably fascinating.

Name : Ella Taylor / Alias : NPR
Moselle is also a patient observer who, without judgment or superfluous underlining, gradually teases out the pathos and the riveting dramas - some dark and disturbing, some bizarrely entertaining and heartening - of the parents.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
[It] has to be seen to be believed.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
Sometimes, all you need is a great subject to make a great documentary - or a willingness to chase after total strangers.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
More than a testament to the power of cinematic storytelling as food for the human spirit, "The Wolfpack" also is a portrait of a family that has had to rely on each other to survive.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
What if all you knew of the world came from Hollywood movies? That's a loaded question - and Crystal Moselle's gripping doc runs with it. You won't be able to pull your eyes off the screen.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
What a sad, strange, intoxicating movie.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
As someone who's been a fan since 5, twisting away in my living room to their Ed Sullivan appearance, there isn't much I haven't seen. Or thought I hadn't. But Howard still digs up surprises .

Name : Melissa Anderson / Alias : Village Voice
Frantically rushing through the quartet's prodigious output during these years, Eight Days a Week is best when it slows down .

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
The music is so strong, and such a demonstration of how potent the group was in action, that it alone makes the film worth seeing.

Name : Paul de Barros / Alias : Seattle Times
By using home-movie footage in hotel rooms, fly-on-the-wall tape from the studio control room, Howard's film often succeeds in making you feel it all from the four lads' astonished point of view.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
It all feels a little glossy, but who can complain when the vibes are so good and the tunes so catchy?

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
90 percent familiar and a bit hagiographic as well, but just try watching it without smiling.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
I've heard "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" probably thousands of times, too, and I still like hearing them. So it is with Howard's movie - the story is so incredibly good, it's worth repeating.

Name : John DeFore / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
It will make a fine entry point for younger auds who grew up with the songs but never had Beatlemania shoved down their throats.

Name : Gersh Kuntzman / Alias : New York Daily News
You can't watch them in these days and not be caught up in Beatlemania.

Name : G. Allen Johnson / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
A must for any fan.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Ron Howard's documentary rightly keeps coming back to the music and the band's delight in making it. Good move. It truly is a joy forever.

Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
A sparky, moving and funny film about John, Paul, George and Ringo, whose own youthful words provide the film's best moments.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
The Beatles now belong to an honored past, stuck there like an obelisk, and yet here they are, alive-busting out all over, time and time again. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Take the kids and watch their little minds get blown.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Taken on [its own] limited terms, "Eight Days a Week" plays nicely enough: the mostly uptempo Side A of a well-stocked greatest hits album, as it were.

Name : Mark Caro / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Howard is more interested in wowing audiences with exuberant, hysteria-ridden performances than he is in digging for explanations.

Name : Alex McCown / Alias : AV Club
It's a testament to the buoyancy of the film that such exhausted, well-trod material can still feel fresh.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
The familiar events presented here were covered more thoroughly in the band's own 11-hour Beatles Anthology, though Howard has dug up some good ancillary concert footage that illustrates the chaos swirling around every show.

Name : Godfrey Cheshire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
The group's fans today, of any age, are bound to welcome Eight Days a Week, in which Beatlemania's mid-'60s comet of joy and astonishment is thrillingly captured.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
Don't expect trenchant analysis or deep insights into the group's creative process. Do revel, however, in the gleeful tumult and the gorgeous music.

Name : Tom Shone / Alias : Newsweek
[Howard seems] as if he were intent on making a film for anyone who tuned in to The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, fell in love with the four adorable mop tops and regrets all the long-haired plonking about with sitars that came later.