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Wonderland

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
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Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Laurence Coriat
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 28, 2000
DVD: February 20, 2001
Running Time: 108 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Summary
RATING: R for some strong sexuality, and for language
Starring Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Ian Hart, and John Simm
This drama follows the lives of three generations of a working-class London family during a weekend of the annual "Bonfire Night" festival in London, focusing on the tangled family ties of three sisters, their parents, and the men in their lives.
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What The Critics Said
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
In short, Wonderland is an extraordinary film, as entertaining as it is observant, about ordinary people.
Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
Though Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland appears as gritty as they come, it uncommonly has a romantic heart.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Its superb performances, music, photography, dialogue, its rhythms of tone and theme all complement each perfectly.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
In Wonderland, Winterbottom has found a script worthy of his passion.
Read Full Review >Film.com Robert Horton
This is a beautiful, surprisingly uplifting movie, made by someone who actually understands people.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Dennis Lim
There's not a false note among the performances: Henderson, Hart, Shepherd, Markham, and in particular McKee add unspoken complexities to their portrayals.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
While it's no good time at the movies, Wonderland is an excruciatingly authentic experience.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
The striking graininess of the film stock, the near-documentary style of the setups, and Michael Nyman's attentive score add up to a relatable and ultimately hopeful experience.
Read Full Review >Film.com Peter Brunette
Most important, the film is suffused with a light touch and a kind of begrudged humor that feels perfectly natural and unforced and that keeps you involved in the characters' plight.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Sara Wildberger
There's enough here to make anyone who enjoyed -- if that's the right word -- "Happiness" or "Magnolia" splendidly unhappy.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Movies like Wonderland invite me into the screen with them. I am curious. I begin to care.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Loses steam only when it strays from the sisters and attempts to depict their parents' loveless marriage.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The ensemble acting is impressively in tune; and Michael Nyman's surging score adds an extra measure of emotional power.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Give it a chance and you'll probably share the cast's collective impulse to dive in and embrace it.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
Winterbottom ("Welcome to Sarajevo," "Go Now") has filmed Wonderland with a hand-held 16 millimeter camera, lending the production an air of scrappy immediacy that is often arrestingly at odds with Michael Nyman's overheated musical score.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
It's another subtle, fantastic performance from McKee ("Notting Hill," "Croupier").
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
With acting as good as this, Wonderland gives you all the expected pleasures of eavesdropping on the intimate lives of others.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
As an interweave of crosscut miniplots, this isn't nearly as interesting or as pleasurable as Jeremy Podeswa's recent "The Five Senses."
Read Full Review >USA Today Andy Seiler
If Wonderland is difficult to embrace, it is easy to admire.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
That (cinéma-vérité) feel is absolutely convincing, as are the performances.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
By the end of Wonderland, I might have felt completely pistol-whipped if not for the gracefulness of some of the movie's actors.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
As well done as it is, Wonderland feels predictable. There is no sad turn in these characters' lives that you cannot see coming about an hour before.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The energy is sapped by clinging condescension in the guise of compassionate liberalism.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The material is familiar, and doesn't have anything new to say about the ways men and women wound each other.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
So bereft of hope... that it's a chore to withstand.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
John C. gave it a10:
This is worth a 10 for the soundtrack alone.
Yoon Min C. gave it an 8:
A hip variation on the British kitchen sink drama it freely takes inspiration from the jazzy styles of Hong Kong cinema and music videos but confines them within the limitations of post-industrial realism. It depicts a world without a future but where lives are lit up with fancy. private or shared. An accurate description of how we live our lives, chained economically, spiritually uprooted, but on an imaginative wanderlust.
