Many of Ben's complaints are totally valid.

| Aug 9, 2017

There's ultimately little doubt that the movie is far more successful as a showcase for Broderick's stirring work than as a fully realized drama...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 22, 2010

Matches every clich with a bit of melodrama.

Full Review | Jan 29, 2010

If ... Wonderful World seem(s) a little tired, the film still has its own low-key pleasures, thanks to Broderick's restrained performance and a script that punctuates the inescapable saccharine of its storyline with tart little bursts of anger.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 29, 2010

While this movie is earnest and well-intentioned, it doesn't quite work.

Full Review | Jan 19, 2010

Not quite good enough.

Full Review | Jan 19, 2010

While the main character is a darkly morbid individual apparently at war with the world, through the people around him he begins to see things in a different light, the building emotions bubbling inside of him ones just about everyone can relate to.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 14, 2010

Despite a film festival pedigree (it was shown at a number of local festivals on the 2009 circuit), the movie is so lightweight and inconsequential that a review seems almost superfluous.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 14, 2010

The movie itself is a little too tidy, a little too determined to convey a lesson, but the character sticks with you.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 14, 2010

It's all very sincere, but watching a dweebish depressive learn that Life Is Good is a lesson of diminishing returns.

| Original Score: C | Jan 13, 2010

The movie is unfailingly likable and finally impressive. Goldin doesn't settle for easy answers, and he makes you think that no one should.

| Jan 11, 2010

A touching spiritual drama about a cynical man and his auspicious relationship with a wise Senegalese brother and his beautiful sister.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2010

[Lathan] finally has a showcase, yet doesn't have a full character to play.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2010

Soft sells its cliches so effectively and without guile they seem fresh in the telling. Then again, maybe you can never overuse the concept of people learning how to be happy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2010

Matthew Broderick adopts just the right attitude for his role in Wonderful World.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2010

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 8, 2010

| Original Score: C | Jan 8, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2010

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 8, 2010

watching this dud is a reminder as to why Goodbye Solo and The Visitor worked as well as they did.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 7, 2010