• Shalini Langer
    Shalini Langer
    Indian Express

    8

    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.

  • Soumya Srivastava
    Soumya Srivastava
    Hindustan Times

    5

    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.

  • Rohan Naahar
    Rohan Naahar
    Hindustan Times

    6

    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.

  • Deccan Chronicle Team
    Deccan Chronicle Team
    Deccan Chronicle

    8

    ‘Wonder’ tells a great story with layers of deep feeling and questions of identity and makes the whole thing feel like a breeze.

  • Neil Soans
    Neil Soans
    Times Of India

    8

    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!

  • Sarita Tanwar
    Sarita Tanwar
    DNA India

    8

    Watch it for the sheer adventure. For those who don’t speak or understand Marathi, there is the universal language of cinema, and subtitles.

  • Wonder, as effective as it is, is a movie in which everything has a way of working out with tidy benevolence.

  • 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.

  • AP
    AP
    Gulf News

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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.