Weighted from a 7.2 average · Why?
Tremblay shines in a heartfelt but tidy crowd-pleaser worth seeing.
Verdict tier Recommended, most critics liked it, on a scale of Unfavorable, Mixed, Recommended, Exceptional.
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Critic consensus
Critical reception for Wonder is largely positive, with most reviewers praising its emotional balance and strong performances, particularly from Jacob Tremblay. Critics highlight the film's ability to handle a potentially maudlin subject with restraint and layers of feeling. The main criticisms center on a lack of depth and complexity in its characters and narrative, with one reviewer noting the film resolves everything with 'tidy benevolence' and another calling it as deep as a fridge magnet. One outlying review appears to conflate the film with an unrelated production, and can be considered unreliable.
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The Monk Score is weighted from a plain average of 7.2 · how scores work
Positive = 6.5/10 and up · negative = below 5/10
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Top critic
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Don't miss this Julia Roberts and Jacob Tremblay starrer...In any lesser hands, the film could easily have become either too exploitative or too maudlin. Instead, Chbosky, the co-screenwriter of Wonder, just gets what the book is about.
Top critic
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You don't need extra frills when you have an actor like Tremblay effortlessly delivering another tremendous performance — who makes you empathise with him without being overtly sweet. After Room and now Wonder, he's pretty much en route to becoming a superstar.
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'Wonder' tells a great story with layers of deep feeling and questions of identity and makes the whole thing feel like a breeze.
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Watch it for the sheer adventure. For those who don't speak or understand Marathi, there is the universal language of cinema, and subtitles.
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There are points when you will reach out for some tissues but they're peppered with enough laughs along the way to make it well-balanced, extremely relevant and combined with a strong message. This wholesome family entertainer is certainly worth your time!
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It doesn't come close to Marvel's Avengers, but thanks to top work by Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa and Ben Affleck, it's certainly a more lighter film than Batman v Superman.
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Fans swear by the intellectual depth and the liberating story of Perks of Being a Wallflower, Chbosky's only other big film, but even that failed to register with me as little more than being dunked in a well of emotions without really soaking in anything. Sadly, this film fails to make a splash either.
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All of these characters, or nearly all of them, are given backstories, heralded by their names in intertitles, sympathetically letting us in to their private lives. (Not Julian though: he gets to be the bully, and that's it.) But there are no real ironies or complexities and Miranda's secret emotional journey is outrageously unlikely. It is a film with all the depth of a fridge magnet.
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Wonder, as effective as it is, is a movie in which everything has a way of working out with tidy benevolence.
Credits
Jacob TremblayAuggie Pullman
Julia RobertsIsabel Pullman
Owen WilsonNate Pullman
Izabela VidovicVia Pullman
Noah JupeJack Will
Mandy PatinkinMr. Tushman
Danielle Rose RussellMiranda Navas
Daveed DiggsMr. Browne
Ali LiebertMs. Petosa
Nadji JeterJustin
Emma TremblayMichelle
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