[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

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

This isn't a modern spin on a classic tale of fantasy and wonder, it's an outright nightmare I never want to think about ever again.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 24, 2020

The twee onslaught of Wendy reinforces that filmmaker Benh Zeitlin's view of childhood wonder remains superficial--and racially problematic.

| Mar 25, 2020

"Wendy's" ambition far outreaches its grasp. Rather than Neverland, Zeitlin has created a land you never want to visit.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 16, 2020

A moving and powerful version of "Peter Pan" that might work best on adults.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2020

The magic of this Neverland is knowing we just have to believe and we will always be able to fly.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 5, 2020

"Wendy" is not glossy by any means but it feels like an escape from the soulless live-action Disney remakes audiences have become accustomed to.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2020

Beware the dream project an artist has carried in his head for too long. He may well have lost all distance on it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 4, 2020

The core concept of Wendy, in which Wendy isn't Peter's devoted follower so much as his headstrong, courageous challenger, is a good one; the movie doesn't do much with it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 2, 2020

Man cannot live on beauty alone, and the story underneath the film's beauty is ultimately thin.

| Mar 2, 2020

A movie about childhood that is aimed at grownups who are extremely precious about the concept of childhood.

| Feb 29, 2020

[Similar to] Terrence Malick's lesser work, it's a bit muddled. I feel like [director Benh Zeitlin] was so focused on the imagery - which was quite beautiful at times - that the plot suffered.

| Feb 29, 2020

All of this is very mystical, magical, and moving, but it's a bit too much.

| Feb 29, 2020

The effort it must have taken to create this movie is apparent in every frame, but that doesn't mean it's watchable.

| Feb 28, 2020

A film that shouldn't exist. It's a style of moviemaking that seems to have no place in today's cookie-cutter film market - that seems to have no audience, even, unless the audience is you.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 28, 2020

Your wandering attention may begin to fixate on other deficiencies: the flimsiness of the narrative scaffolding, the thinness of the characterizations and the filmmakers' tendency to mistake platitudes for poetry.

| Feb 27, 2020

Zeitlin - who proves more sentimental about childhood than Barrie - keeps the parts whirring, casting about for meaning that never fully comes.

| Feb 27, 2020