This grand mess of a movie has many pleasures.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Michael Douglas gives the best perfromance of his career (to be remembered at Oscar time) in this screwball comedy about a college professor who's pushed into maturity by forces beyond his control; a well-acted coming-of-age saga for adults.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Apr 5, 2007

Wonder Boys digresses so entertainingly, you forget how quickly Grady got into the mess he's in, and can't imagine where we might be headed.

| Jan 26, 2006

With so much to say, Hanson's movie is too frenetic.

| Dec 2, 2002

Get going, you laggards.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2001

The overall effect is like opening a present on Christmas morning.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 2, 2001

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2000

Sexy and wry.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

One of the most accessible of joy rides.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Smart and funny.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Wonder Boys is like a George Cukor movie with a bad head cold -- slow, muffled and vague.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A film with the courage to do what it wants, safe in the knowledge that its characters are strong, funny, and interesting enough to suck the audience in.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Glad to have been invited along.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

While Maguire's blank shapelessness has left a hole in the center of other films, here he delivers a real performance rather than just his wide-eyed presence.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Wonders really never cease.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's an often-wondrous comedy, just as rich and surprising as L.A. Confidential but considerably less dark.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Big disappointment.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Funny and touching.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Wonder Boys doesn't hit you over the head--its wackiness as well as its humanity slips up on you, catches you off guard.

| Jan 1, 2000

An emotionally dishonest movie about emotionally dishonest people.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000