Synopsis
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
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Cast
- Oakes FegleyBen
- Millicent SimmondsRose
- Julianne MooreLillian Mayhew / Rose
- Michelle WilliamsElaine
- Cory Michael SmithWalter
- James UrbaniakDr. Kincaid, Rose's Father
- Damian YoungOtto, Museum Guard
- Patrick MurneyWorkman
- Lauren RidloffPearl, The Maid
- Anthony NataleDr. Gill, Teacher of the Deaf
Recommendations
- 100
The Hollywood Reporter
Alive with the magic of pictures and the mysteries of silence, this is an uncommonly grownup film about children, communication, connection and memory. - 91
IndieWire
This is a soul-stirring and fiercely uncynical film that suggests the entire world is a living museum for the people we’ve lost, and that we should all hope to leave some of ourselves behind in its infinite cabinet of wonders. - 83
The Playlist
Wonderstruck lives in the glory of its filmmaking — its photography, its costuming, its set design, its brilliantly variegated Carter Burwell score. - 80
The Telegraph
Haynes’s vision of two New Yorks, a half-century apart, is a marvel of nested detail, never overbearing, and interested in things rusted and forgotten rather than shiny and new. - 80
Screen Daily
As an innovative filmmaker who naturally chimes with the perspective of the outsider looking in, Haynes takes a semi-graphic novel which comes with a strong visual identity, and makes it very much his own. - 67
The Film Stage
Haynes fails to impart Wonderstruck with the sort of zip that gives young persons’ capers like these the pacing they require. - 60
Time Out London
It ends up as a sweet-enough movie, and one that’s full of joy and invention – but also one that feels like a lot of effort has been put into serving a tale that maybe doesn’t fully deserve it. - 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Wonderstruck gestures at a lot, especially between the two narratives, which Haynes flips between with such rapidity that the film isn’t able to find a tonal groove until well past its halfway point.
