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70The movie is unfailingly likable and finally impressive. Goldin doesn’t settle for easy answers, and he makes you think that no one should.
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Broderick, for his part, is playing a role solidly in his late-career wheelhouse: a middle-age disappointment, Ferris Bueller gone to seed. So affecting is Broderick in these parts -- at this point, only Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a better schlub.
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60Tales of cynical curmudgeons rediscovering their humanity have long been a cinematic staple, but Wonderful World brings a refreshing lack of sentimentality to its take.
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60As a misanthropic guy in a dead-end job, Matthew Broderick is more engaging than when he has to be perky.
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60The major miscalculation in Wonderful World is the presence of a dream figure, known as the Man (Philip Baker Hall)...he throws this delicate, intelligent film, which at its best suggests a muted hybrid of “The Visitor” and “It’s a Wonderful Life,” off balance.
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The screenplay packs no particular surprises - some of the plot mechanics positively creak - but the leads bring some wattage and warmth to very modest indie fare.
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50Wonderful World feels like a modern-day half-baked riff on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
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50It's all very sincere, but watching a dweebish depressive learn that Life Is Good is a lesson of diminishing returns.
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Josh Goldin, a longtime screenwriter whose credits include "Darkman" and "Out on a Limb" -- and whose wife is a writer at the L.A. Times -- makes his debut as a writer-director with Wonderful World. The results of Goldin's dual efforts are promising but uneven.
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50Joshua Goldin's directing debut has soulful qualities that have been compressed into a paint-by-numbers production.
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50Broderick’s tendency to hang all his problems on corporate greed and heartless bureaucracy leads to some strange missteps.
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50This is a half-baked movie about a half-baked person, but it has a fine, melancholic afterglow.
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40Credit Broderick and the cast for putting across the fey Indiewood bullcrap with committed, nearly convincing effort.
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38Matthew Broderick graduates from "boyish" and lurches straight into "curmudgeonly" in the would-be indie heartwarmer Wonderful World.
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30It's heartbreaking to see Lathan, an underemployed actress whose talents were last put to good use in 2006's "Something Else," in such a ridiculous, impossible role.