From a distance, Val Kilmer still passes as beautiful... But close up, his is the face of corruption: an intense mass of beforehis-time lines. There is certainly a great role out there for him, but reallife former porn star John C Holmes isn't it.

| Dec 15, 2017

Very sordid and unexpectedly dull; adults only.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Unwarrantedly interested in B-list celebrity-gone-to-seed.

| Original Score: D+ | Jul 29, 2005

Rarely has so much of so little consequence been so closely examined.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2003

Sometimes Wonderland does make you wonder why you're wasting your time with these losers. But there's also a lot here that stays with you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 24, 2003

The main interest here is the acting, which is, by turns, entertaining or just entertainingly bad, with lots of grungy seriousness and Method-trained twitching, but also some moments of real gusto.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2003

A film whose effects are as hard to wash away as blood.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2003

Overblown, overheated, overdirected, overacted, overlong and over here, in the local bijoux.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2003

Not quite the second coming of Boogie Nights.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 17, 2003

If for some reason you are fascinated by the Wonderland murders, look up the Rolling Stone article of 1989 that brought national attention to the gruesome case. Otherwise, your local cineplex has lots of choices with more redeeming social value.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 17, 2003

Wonderland may not be the feel-good movie of the year; in fact it feels pretty lousy most of the time. But it offers a dark story well-told with some truly fine performances.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 17, 2003

An unsettling, sordid, overly stylized and intensely well-done drama.

| Oct 17, 2003

For all Wonderland's kinetic energy, the mind wanders.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 17, 2003

True crime procedurals can have a certain fascination, but not when they're jumbled glimpses of what might or might not have happened involving a lot of empty people whose main claim to fame is that they're dead.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 17, 2003

Wonderland skips lightly along the sewers of human depravity as if the trip alone was worth the telling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 17, 2003

A dry, forensic account, more suitable for a true-crime show on late-night cable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 16, 2003

Muddled and largely unentertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Oct 16, 2003

Wonderland is in your face. Any deeper connections, like those to heart and mind, get lost in the splash.

| Original Score: C | Oct 16, 2003

The film reveals no great truths about human nature or drug abuse, the dialogue is witless, the acting unconstrained.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 16, 2003

Although Wonderland isn't much of a movie, it is a parade of exceptional acting.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 16, 2003