An unsettling, sordid, overly stylized and intensely well-done drama.
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10/17/03
Wonderland (2003)
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Reviews Counted:98
Fresh:34
Rotten:64
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: A sordid and pointless movie with some good preformances.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: WONDERLAND – Based on a true story and starring Val Kilmer, Lisa Kudrow, Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott, Josh Lucas, Eric Bogosian, Tim Blake Nelson, Christina Applegate, Natasha Gregson Wagner,... [More]
Starring: Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott, Lisa Kudrow
Director: James Cox
Reviews for Wonderland
For all Wonderland's kinetic energy, the mind wanders.
10/17/03
True crime procedurals can have a certain fascination, but not when they're jumbled glimpses of what might or might not have happened involving a lot of empty people whose main claim to fame is that they're dead.
10/17/03
Top CriticWonderland skips lightly along the sewers of human depravity as if the trip alone was worth the telling.
10/17/03
A well-constructed, observant exploration with Kilmer doing everything he can to charm us.
10/17/03
It all makes for an interesting look at infamy in the hands of the brash young Cox.
10/17/03
[H]yperkinetic, retro-groovy, and sorta superfluous...
10/17/03
A dry, forensic account, more suitable for a true-crime show on late-night cable.
10/16/03
The film is so truncated, so obsessed with style and composed of so many self-contained episodes that it fails to say anything new.
10/16/03
Muddled and largely unentertaining.
10/16/03
Comparisons to Boogie Nights...may be inevitable. But Wonderland...is an absorbing and adroit (if not inventive), sobering and smart movie that is worth watching on its own merits.
10/16/03
Wonderland is in your face. Any deeper connections, like those to heart and mind, get lost in the splash.
10/16/03
The film reveals no great truths about human nature or drug abuse, the dialogue is witless, the acting unconstrained.
10/16/03
Although Wonderland isn't much of a movie, it is a parade of exceptional acting.
10/16/03
Wonderland aspires to the grisly poetry of a James Ellroy novella but only achieves the ugliness of an 8-mm loop.
10/16/03
Wonderland is fast and frenetic and so unvarnished that it can make you feel unclean watching it.
10/16/03
If you can get past the agitated visual gimmicks, there’s just enough mystery to sink your teeth in to.
10/16/03
Manages to move beyond its bloody rage by spinning a complex narrative that’s one of the year’s most compelling stories.
10/14/03
The movie has the hopped-up, sickening energy of a four-day drug binge, and it's as repellently fascinating as a pulp detective magazine.
10/13/03
Pure edge-of-your-seat material. It is a gripping and engrossing tale ... told with the exhilarating energy of a runaway freight train.
10/11/03
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