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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is strange yet comforting, full of narrative detours that don't always work but express the film's uniqueness.
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Probably the best film of its sort since The Wizard of Oz. It is everything that family movies usually claim to be, but aren't: Delightful, funny, scary, exciting, and, most of all, a genuine work of imagination. Jul 9, 2018 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Probably the best film of its sort since The Wizard of Oz. It is everything that family movies usually claim to be, but aren't: Delightful, funny, scary, exciting, and, most of all, a genuine work of imagination.
Roger Ebert
An okay family musical fantasy. Aug 14, 2008 | Full Review…
An okay family musical fantasy.
Variety Staff
Great fun, with Wilder for once giving an impeccably controlled performance as the factory's bizarre owner. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
Great fun, with Wilder for once giving an impeccably controlled performance as the factory's bizarre owner.
he casting of Gene Wilder in the title role is the key: there is a crazed, yet knowing, glint in his eye that suggests the world of corporate confectionery is more sillier and sinister than we will ever know. Sep 20, 2018 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
he casting of Gene Wilder in the title role is the key: there is a crazed, yet knowing, glint in his eye that suggests the world of corporate confectionery is more sillier and sinister than we will ever know.
Leigh Paatsch
It is a rare breed: an imaginative live-action kid's film that engages and delights adults. Feb 3, 2018 | Full Review…
It is a rare breed: an imaginative live-action kid's film that engages and delights adults.
Sean Axmaker
Creates a marvelous world as close to heaven as any kid can imagine and never talks down to its young audience. Aug 8, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Creates a marvelous world as close to heaven as any kid can imagine and never talks down to its young audience.
The movie continues to remain timeless in spite of itself. Aug 8, 2017 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The movie continues to remain timeless in spite of itself.
Rich Phippen
Vibrant, imaginative fantasy reveals a layer of grimness beneath the confection. Aug 8, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Vibrant, imaginative fantasy reveals a layer of grimness beneath the confection.
Jeremy Aspinall
The film has a rosier reputation than it earns, but its strengths are awfully good, and [Gene] Wilder is one for the history books. Dec 5, 2016 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
The film has a rosier reputation than it earns, but its strengths are awfully good, and [Gene] Wilder is one for the history books.
Tim Brayton
With a single gleam of his eye, Wilder pulls off more hints at a devious personality than all Johnny Depp's white make up, and bad wigs combined. Oct 4, 2014 | Full Review…
With a single gleam of his eye, Wilder pulls off more hints at a devious personality than all Johnny Depp's white make up, and bad wigs combined.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
It's Gene Wilder, at the top of his form, who makes this uneasy amalgam work, but [Mel] Stuart must surely deserve some of the credit... May 4, 2012 | Full Review…
It's Gene Wilder, at the top of his form, who makes this uneasy amalgam work, but [Mel] Stuart must surely deserve some of the credit...
A polarizing, but classic piece of children's entertainment filled with whimsy, horror, comedy and imagination. Jan 29, 2012 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
A polarizing, but classic piece of children's entertainment filled with whimsy, horror, comedy and imagination.
R.L. Shaffer
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