Sometimes Zeitlin is too literal, sometimes he’s too vague. The occasional salty dialogue from the kids feels forced, and not all of the non-professional performances click. But those things never rob the movie of its imagination, emotion, and grit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The metaphors are sprinkled liberally like fairy dust, as childish imagination and joy clashes with the reality and bitterness wrought by old age.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2021

An astonishing riff on Peter Pan, this film is both earthy and dreamy at the same time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2021

This is ambitious, wild filmmaking that pushes with childlike recklessness against the rigid bounds of literary adaptation: it doesn't always succeed, but when it does, everything feels -- just for a moment -- extraordinary.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2021

[Wendy] sees the director double down on his style while finding little reason to justify it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2021

A new take on Peter Pan that actually works, delivering all the visual richness you'd hope for from the film-maker behind Beasts Of The Southern Wild.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2021

While by no means perfect, Wendy ... has originality, folklore, and old-school Americana to recommend it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2021

Wendy is undoubtedly a well-intentioned attempt at re-dressing a classic story, but the narrative and performances often keep this version from taking flight.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 13, 2021

Though the film starts off as a cliché-ridden redemption story, it gets more interesting as Smith quietly drifts into the background and his subjects' lives come into narrative focus.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2021

I found myself pulled along, not only by Zeitlin's tugging showmanship, but the ache he manages to create around childhood as an enchanted space.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2021

It replaces JM Barrie's plot with its own melancholy take on growing old.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2021

A frustrating film which is full of good intentions but is marred by sloppy execution.

| Aug 10, 2021

Fans of innovative dramas should seek this film out.

| Aug 1, 2021

It's a just-so vision of poverty, augmented by overly fussy, self-consciously yearning (and trailer-ready) narration.

| Jan 28, 2021

Wendy has its charms, and they're not insignificant, but it's ultimately more dud than deed.

| Dec 22, 2020

[Director Benh] Zeitlin appeals to the mature spectator's inner child. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2020

Paying homage to the role and responsibility of motherhood, this re-imagination of the classic tale stays with you long after the credits roll.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Nov 27, 2020

Wendy is very much a work of atmospheria, sometimes maddening but with a style, a mood, a feeling impossible to shake.

| Aug 28, 2020

A film that dabbles in the creative imagery of "Peter Pan" but loses control of its narrative for an uncertain target audience.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 18, 2020

I found myself wishing for a story less beholden to one we've seen brought to the screen so many times before.

| Jul 1, 2020