Wonderful World Reviews
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There's ultimately little doubt that the movie is far more successful as a showcase for Broderick's stirring work than as a fully realized drama...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Top CriticIf ... Wonderful World seem(s) a little tired, the film still has its own low-key pleasures, thanks to Broderick's restrained performance and a script that punctuates the inescapable saccharine of its storyline with tart little bursts of anger.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The movie itself is a little too tidy, a little too determined to convey a lesson, but the character sticks with you.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The movie is unfailingly likable and finally impressive. Goldin doesn't settle for easy answers, and he makes you think that no one should.
Spirituality and Practice
A touching spiritual drama about a cynical man and his auspicious relationship with a wise Senegalese brother and his beautiful sister.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Boxoffice Magazine
Soft sells its cliches so effectively and without guile they seem fresh in the telling. Then again, maybe you can never overuse the concept of people learning how to be happy.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Matthew Broderick adopts just the right attitude for his role in Wonderful World.
| Original Score: 3/5
Sly Fox
Ferris Bueller's Jungle Fever!
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
BrianOrndorf.com
It takes some digging, but there are a few nuggets of emotional clarity within Wonderful World that makes it worth a sit, along with the chance to spy a nice ensemble of actors able to nudge some life into Goldin's screenplay.
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| Original Score: B-
ComingSoon.net
An enjoyable look into one man's emotional journey even if it doesn't offer anything that new or indispensable in the grand scheme of things.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Washington City Paper
Matches every cliché with a bit of melodrama.
While this movie is earnest and well-intentioned, it doesn't quite work.
Despite a film festival pedigree (it was shown at a number of local festivals on the 2009 circuit), the movie is so lightweight and inconsequential that a review seems almost superfluous.
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| Original Score: 2/4
It's all very sincere, but watching a dweebish depressive learn that Life Is Good is a lesson of diminishing returns.
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| Original Score: C
[Lathan] finally has a showcase, yet doesn't have a full character to play.
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| Original Score: 3/5
