My Wonderful Wanda
Kino Lorber | Release Date: April 23, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Film ThreatAnthony Ray BenchApr 22, 2021
A film called My Wonderful Wanda needed more exploration of the title character. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 22, 2021
Death and new life, cultural prejudices and that Swiss obsession with money play into a film that is Germanic in its darkness, as subtle as a wet slap and funny? Eventually. Read full review
70
VarietyAlissa SimonApr 22, 2021
It’s an engaging, mostly well-acted tale, full of surprising twists, even if some seem a bit too on the nose. Read full review
60
CineVueMatthew AndersonApr 22, 2021
Behind the closed doors of this lakeside paradise it is clear that there’s trouble afoot. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayApr 22, 2021
An engrossing but uneven comedy-drama. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenApr 22, 2021
Bettina Oberli is more interested in the interplay of her characters than a barbed look at geopolitics, an approach that clicks only to a point in this well-performed but overlong and uneven feature. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinApr 22, 2021
Oberli and Ziesche, who’ve divided the story into three chapters plus an epilogue (the less said about the plot the better to protect a few solid twists), attempt to lay bare the thorny issue of outsourcing care work to migrants but don’t layer in enough heft or context to make a wholly satisfying statement. Read full review
50
The New York TimesKristen Yoonsoo KimApr 22, 2021
The film, written by Oberli and Cooky Ziesche, satirizes class divides and xenophobia (“the Pole” constantly carries a derogatory connotation here), but never takes the satire far enough to be memorable, challenging or anything beyond whimsical. Read full review
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