Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

In Wonderland, Winterbottom has found a script worthy of his passion.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

One of the best realistic dramas of the year.

Village Voice by Dennis Lim

There's not a false note among the performances: Henderson, Hart, Shepherd, Markham, and in particular McKee add unspoken complexities to their portrayals.

Boston Globe by Jay Carr

Give it a chance and you'll probably share the cast's collective impulse to dive in and embrace it.

Baltimore Sun by Ann Hornaday

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.

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."

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

That (cinéma-vérité) feel is absolutely convincing, as are the performances.

USA Today by Andy Seiler

If Wonderland is difficult to embrace, it is easy to admire.

Salon by Stephanie Zacharek

By the end of Wonderland, I might have felt completely pistol-whipped if not for the gracefulness of some of the movie's actors.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

The energy is sapped by clinging condescension in the guise of compassionate liberalism.