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05/12/07
Wondrous Oblivion (2006)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:9
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: This coming-of-age/cricket tale wants to be touching, but is too often sappy.
Theatrical Release:Nov 3, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Eleven year old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has all the kit but none of the skill, and he's a laughing stock at school. So when a Jamaican family move in next door and... [More]
Starring: Sam Smith, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Townsend, Emily Woof
Director: Paul Morrison
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Reviews for Wondrous Oblivion
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Top CriticWondrous Oblivion is a timeless tale of an 11-year-old South London boy putting aside boyish things. Writer-director Paul Morrison affirms PG-rated life lessons that could appeal to 11-year-olds and their elders alike.
01/12/07
Top CriticFor all its bright-hued nostalgia (the cricket greens are practically incandescent), Wondrous Oblivion edges up to hard truths, most powerfully expressed in Lindo's towering performance.
12/30/06
Top CriticYou don't have to know anything about the sport of cricket to be charmed by Wondrous Oblivion, a British film that is finally getting a well-deserved theatrical release after opening the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival in 2004.
12/22/06
Top CriticIt's a delight to see Delroy Lindo -- perpetually cast as tough cops and tougher crooks -- playing a tender father and decent (if struggling) husband.
11/06/06
Top CriticThe film feels like the Cliffs Notes version of what might have been a much longer and certainly more satisfying story.
11/03/06
Top CriticIt loses direction, turning contrived and sentimental.
11/03/06
Top CriticGood intentions and some nicely playful moments go a long way toward balancing out Paul Morrison's uneven story of British immigrants in the early 1960s.
11/03/06
Top CriticForm and content fight to the death in Wondrous Oblivion, Paul Morrison's defiantly gauzy tale of racial friction in 1960s England.
11/02/06
Top Critic[The film] strikes a curiously cheerful note in these singularly cheerless times.
11/01/06
Top CriticWondrous Oblivion goes awry in its sloppy racial drama, and although the cricket-training montages are good, they're still training montages, and this is just that kind of overfamiliar movie.
11/01/06
Top CriticIf writer-director Paul Morrison's film traces a predictable arc from racial unease to acceptance, it's often winning -- and sometimes tough-minded -- in the details.
10/31/06
Top CriticReally about the mutual flowering of its characters. That flowering is given full bloom by a uniformly strong cast, but the movie ultimately belongs to Lindo.
07/20/06
Top CriticPic often works well, with some beautifully observed comic moments ... but there's an unsettling tug between several different movies trying to get out.
07/20/06
Top CriticWithout the attractive young women and with a game far less exciting to the uninitiated, Oblivion lacks the spark of [Bend It Like Beckham].
05/05/04
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