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If Wonderland is difficult to embrace, it is easy to admire.
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Winterbottom ("Welcome to Sarajevo," "Go Now") has filmed Wonderland with a hand-held 16 millimeter camera, lending the production an air of scrappy immediacy that is often arrestingly at odds with Michael Nyman's overheated musical score.
80
There's not a false note among the performances: Henderson, Hart, Shepherd, Markham, and in particular McKee add unspoken complexities to their portrayals.
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New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
That (cinéma-vérité) feel is absolutely convincing, as are the performances.
75
Give it a chance and you'll probably share the cast's collective impulse to dive in and embrace it.
70
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
As an interweave of crosscut miniplots, this isn't nearly as interesting or as pleasurable as Jeremy Podeswa's recent "The Five Senses."
50
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The energy is sapped by clinging condescension in the guise of compassionate liberalism.
88
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
One of the best realistic dramas of the year.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
In Wonderland, Winterbottom has found a script worthy of his passion.
60
By the end of Wonderland, I might have felt completely pistol-whipped if not for the gracefulness of some of the movie's actors.