Sadly, the only wonder about this messy, overstuffed film, is the bewilderment of seeing so many talented people attached.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 13, 2018

I enjoyed the unconventional structure, plus the unfussy approach to disability in a film that is aimed at younger audiences.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2018

Even this visionary director can't make shots of people looking at things (books, museum exhibits) feel compelling, or pass off coincidence as drama.

| Apr 6, 2018

The plot is so reliant on coincidences and contrivances you'll want to throw stuff at the screen.

| Apr 6, 2018

Haynes' film has lovely performances from both actors, and a keen sense of time and place help, but the story is a little too shaggy and unformed to entirely hold the attention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2018

It's a unique mixture of the experimental and the sentimental.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2018

Visually it's a dream, yet unlike its young, expressive leads, this experiment fails to strike a chord.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 5, 2018

The plot unfolds like a bad Victorian novel, where the coincidence monster waits at the end of Sentimentality Lane.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2018

This is all executed with real verve, showcasing a range of filmmaking styles and all at the service of a sweeping, even cosmic, story. Yet it also, despite the many emotions on display, feels a bit stuffy and soulless...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2018

I'd watch a cut of Wonderstruck that was solely the black-and-white portion of the film. Simmonds is so remarkable - a movie star in the classic sense, in how much she can do with just an expression - that even the most mundane details seem compelling.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 21, 2017

All the pieces are in the right place-the marketing is brilliant, the cast is talented, and director Todd Haynes is a treasure. So how could something set up so perfectly be so tonally uneven?

| Original Score: 3 stars | Nov 16, 2017

Aims for whimsical, but lands well short of its goal.

| Original Score: C | Nov 10, 2017

Those who are merely looking for a flick that goes well with popcorn may be bored, but true cinema buffs will be in heaven.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 9, 2017

The longing for interpersonal connection, which is so central to Wonderstruck, reverberates throughout Haynes's work.

| Nov 2, 2017

Wonderstruck is a thing to behold, even if it seems at times that the parts don't quite add up to the whole. Screw math: Sometimes the sum total isn't the totality.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 2, 2017

A sweet, gentle story of two children connecting across time.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 30, 2017

Haynes struggles to connect all the dots. Wonderstruck reaches for the stars and falls short.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 27, 2017

Wonderstruck is a goldmine of emotional purity, its cabinet of wonders one I cannot wait to open again as soon as I can.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 27, 2017

It's the sort of poetic conceit that needs a filmmaker far more rapt and intuitive than Haynes, whose jeweler's precision keeps everything at an emotional remove.

| Original Score: C | Oct 27, 2017

Here, finally, is a children's film for real children, a sincere and humane work that is absent any franchise concerns or daydreams of ancillary product.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 27, 2017