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A film that tackles something as simple as everyday life and succeeds beatifully. The witty script and clever direction keep the film flowing, while the superb acting keeps it alive. It doesn't aim for the sky and for that reason it hits its mark.
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Wonderland is well crafted from the editing to the acting, but it often feels like a television pilot for a calculatedly hip soap opera. Apr 25, 2003 | Rating: 3/4
Wonderland is well crafted from the editing to the acting, but it often feels like a television pilot for a calculatedly hip soap opera.
Liam Lacey
The film's realistic approach to storytelling and the strong performances mesh well with Winterbottom's stylistic flourishes. May 11, 2001
The film's realistic approach to storytelling and the strong performances mesh well with Winterbottom's stylistic flourishes.
David Hunter
It becomes one of those movies that hurt so good. Feb 14, 2001 | Rating: B
It becomes one of those movies that hurt so good.
Eleanor Ringel Cater
An often powerful, and more often bracing, experience. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An often powerful, and more often bracing, experience.
Desson Thomson
The energy is sapped by clinging condescension in the guise of compassionate liberalism. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: C | Full Review…
The energy is sapped by clinging condescension in the guise of compassionate liberalism.
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Wonderland feels predictable. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/5
Wonderland feels predictable.
Elvis Mitchell
Winterbottom and his cast make the characters' individual journeys involving and rewarding. Jan 7, 2010 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Winterbottom and his cast make the characters' individual journeys involving and rewarding.
Michael Dequina
We've frankly heard it all before. Dec 14, 2007 | Full Review…
We've frankly heard it all before.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
These are just a bunch of junkies killing each other and the aftermath. Mar 16, 2004 | Rating: 2/5
These are just a bunch of junkies killing each other and the aftermath.
Eric Lurio
The 'oh, wow' irony of the street name seems to be the prime rationale for 'Wonderland' ... Oct 27, 2003 | Rating: 1.5/4
The 'oh, wow' irony of the street name seems to be the prime rationale for 'Wonderland' ...
John Beifuss
A consistently bewitching experience. Dec 2, 2002 | Full Review…
A consistently bewitching experience.
Xan Brooks
The acting is as good as it can be under the strictures of the script; unfortunately there's not much to be done with this property. Oct 21, 2002 | Full Review…
The acting is as good as it can be under the strictures of the script; unfortunately there's not much to be done with this property.
Jean Lowerison
caught this on TV without knowing who it was by and I was instantly captivated. The first thing is that it's filmed and set where I live, around the Elephant and Castle and Walworth Road, and it's about the people I see every day. It's absolutely spot on about the kind of lives people around here lead and the way individuals and different social groups interact. What lifts it above the sort of social realism common in British cinema is the cutting, the cinematography and Michael Nyman's lovely music, which must be his best work post-Greenaway. While I've never been a big fan of the 'poetry of degradation' school of art, somehow the ugliness and squalor of South East London are transformed by this film and the lives of the characters are invested with real dignity. Though it may deal with the same sort of subject matter as Ken Loach or Mike Leigh, the style and approach are very different - the difference between a great piece of prose and a poem. I guess you could say Winterbottom and Nyman do for London what Scorsese and Herrmann did for New York in Mean Streets and Taxi Driver. This is a beautiful film and I feel real gratitude to Michael Winterbottom for bringing our lives to the screen in such a way.
Super Reviewer
Good movie. An interesting story plot.
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