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Wonderstruck

2017

Todd Haynes

Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Millicent Simmonds, Michelle Williams ...

5.5

1,920

Drama Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his home and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out on quests to find what they are missing that unfold with mesmerizing symmetry.

	Media	Author	Review
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"'Wonderstruck' is unmistakably the work of an artisan whose attention to detail mirrors the role of museum curators celebrated in the story."
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A lovingly crafted adventure of innocence (...) [It] literally tries to add up, piece by piece, into a fully assembled puzzle of greatness, but the puzzle is less than transporting because you can still see all the seams."
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A profoundly moving fable for all ages (...) A soul-stirring and fiercely uncynical film"
		Steve Pond The Wrap	"As a formal exercise in the look and feel of cinema, 'Wonderstruck' is dazzling; as a piece of storytelling, it’s more problematic"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"[It] looks and sounds great, but tells a muddled story (...) The film is downright sloppy at the end—no less gorgeous to look at and listen to, but narratively rushed and manipulative."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] has nice details but suffers from a glib tone and some preposterous plotting (...) Disappointmentstruck and even rather boredomstruck are reasonable descriptions of my emotional state (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Audiences hoping for a Todd Haynes movie will not be disappointed. First rate work from cinematographer Edward Lachman (...) There’s an elegant symmetry to the two stories."
		Dave Calhoun Time Out	"It ends up as a sweet-enough movie, and one that’s full of joy and invention – but also one that feels like a lot of effort has been put into serving a tale that maybe doesn’t fully deserve it (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"A tender study of three children yearning to find their place (...) Haynes’s vision of two New Yorks, a half-century apart, is a marvel of nested detail (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Donald Clarke Irish Times	"'Wonderstruck' remains a singular entertainment. Mid-ranking Todd is better than top-ranking anybody else (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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