Storyline
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Directors
Cast
Owen Wilson, Crystal Lowe, Steve Bacic, Ali Liebert, Nadji Jeter, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Julia Roberts, Ben Ratner, Sônia Braga, Sônia Braga, Kyle Harrison Breitkopf, Rachel Hayward, Andre Robinson, Emma Tremblay, Jacob Tremblay, Millie Davis, Izabela Vidovic, Danielle Rose Russell, Mandy Patinkin, Abigail Friend, Nicole Oliver, Lidya Jewett, Bryce Gheisar, Amber Snow, Ann Evans, Daveed Diggs, Noah Jupe, Sasha Neuhaus, Elle McKinnon, Ty Consiglio, James A Hughes, Izzy Lieberman, Hannah Hoberman, Erika McKitrick, Lucia Thain, Emily Delahunty, William Dickinson, Armen Bagdasarov, Kaelyn Breitkopf, Emily Giannozio, Haley Goldin, Cameron Roberts, Grayson Maxwell Gurnsey, Maccie Margaret Chbosky, Gidget, Victoria Cruz, Laura Mozgovaya, Jason McKinnon, Brayden Snow, Brooke D. Singleton, Alyssa Andronyk, Jason Tremblay, Wilson Chieng, Dallas Snow, Justin Snow, Kayzhia Snow, Elayna Sing, Mark Dozlaw, Razvan Orban, Kari Staten
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Reviews
80
It’s a very tasteful heart-tugger — a drama of disarmingly level-headed empathy that glides along with wit, assurance, and grace, and has something touching and resonant to say about the current climate of American bullying.
75
Wonder is as manipulative as movies get, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes a story needs to steer you; sometimes a story tells you what to feel, but redeems itself by virtue of the sincerity with which it shows why you should feel that way.
75
Much of the film’s success does reside upon Chbosky’s mostly restrained execution, but it is Tremblay that carries it. His fully rendered and exceptional performance is something of a miracle as it joyously goes past the prosthetics and into the core of his character’s roller coaster of emotions.
75
Wonder does occasionally suffer from kid-movie pitfalls, straining to be cute or mining humor from ridiculously precocious little ones. But mostly it succeeds in telling not one complicated story, but many, and giving the experience of being a confused or lonely or scared youngster the space it deserves.
70
Giving the film credit where it’s due, Wonder never cheats in its pursuit of emotion. It’s never mawkish or manipulative, and its characters are so well-established both in the writing and in the performances that the movie ultimately does the hard work of earning those damp Kleenexes.
