What better way to introduce your kids to Todd Haynes, especially if they’re curious like Rose and Ben?

| Original Score: A- | Jul 2, 2024

The cast is incredibly strong. Fegley and Simmonds are confident focalizers, and Moore is as delightful a screen presence as always. But, for all the lovely adult performances, they are always in service of the young stars.

| Dec 5, 2023

It’s a very human movie that not only touches your heart, but reminds us of why cinema is such an extraordinary form of storytelling.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The film is never less than gorgeous, with beautiful images from Edward Lachman, both in color and black-in-white.

| Original Score: B | Aug 24, 2021

For a movie called Wonderstruck, I felt very little actual awe or wonder.

| Jul 21, 2021

What begins as a beautifully crafted flight of fancy grounds itself with a thud in the final half hour with a series of incredulous coincidences.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 1, 2021

Another winner for Todd Haynes...

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 5, 2020

Todd Haynes' spellbinding book adaption is as visually dazzling as it is sensitive.

| Oct 27, 2020

This is in the lower tier of Todd Haynes's filmography, but when we're talking about the director of Carol, that's still higher than what many film auteurs could hope to achieve.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 1, 2020

Wonderstruck is a sentimental slog, a movie with a sense of style but not much to say or show.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

Haynes spares us slack-jawed, bug-eyed Spielbergian reactions shots, but he also denies us deep emotional engagement.

| Jun 3, 2020

The film is like watching a puzzle being carefully, expertly pieced together. It's not Haynes' best work, but it's a rare opportunity to introduce him to a younger audience.

| May 19, 2020

Haynes is doing something more interesting than reconstruction. His film, carried along by Carter Burwell's brilliantly alive score, creates an almost silent movie -- a wordless communion between two periods of time.

| Apr 21, 2020

Expertly written, well-acted, and beautifully shot, Wonderstruck is a stunning feat of technical artistry that connected with me on the deepest emotional level.

| Mar 30, 2020

Always one to dabble in genres and the visionary Haynes applies his handiwork to the silent era capably crafting an homage with perfect stern embouchures, silent screams and protrusive pointed fingers...

| Mar 12, 2020

In essence, Wonderstruck captures the mystery and innocence of a child in a big, unfamiliar world.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2019

In the sweet, beguilingly innocent Wonderstruck, we get to witness this amazing capacity of Haynes once again.

| Oct 12, 2019

Constantly shifting and aligning motifs makes for generous subtext in this sweet, poignant film which takes pains to solve all of its mysterious wonders nice and neatly before delivering an ultimate fade out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2019

... Wonderstruck says a lot in a beautifully quiet way.

| Oct 3, 2019

Wonderstruck explores the awe, innocence, and curiosity of childhood -- even when surrounded by adult dangers and trauma.

| Aug 19, 2019