Wonder Wheel
Amazon Studios | Release Date: December 1, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
17
Negative:
12
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38
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 18, 2017
The movie borders on abhorrent. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliDec 12, 2017
Wonder Wheel seems more like a cobbled-together afterthought than the romantic melodrama it seeks to be. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldDec 7, 2017
It’s just a bad movie; a flat melodrama in which some lovely camerawork and a ferocious central performance from Winslet can’t conceal the rote tiredness of it all. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperDec 7, 2017
On its own “merits,” it would still be a dud. A sluggish, uninspired, period-piece retread of so many earlier and much better Allen films, filled with overly familiar characters and situations and of course a soundtrack seemingly selected from Woody’s personal record collection. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorDec 7, 2017
Although Wonder Wheel begins with a few of the witty ruptures of the fourth wall that have often enlivened Allen's work, it soon descends into a bleak melodrama that is little more than warmed-over Tennessee Williams. Read full review
38
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonDec 7, 2017
A very sloppy piece of work, apart from the cinematography, which is pretty, and the Mills Brothers songs, which are fantastic. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyNov 29, 2017
Turgid even in its brightness, overwritten in a way that does nothing to camoflauge its first-draft quality, jaw-droppingly overacted by all but one of its central cast members; it’s a Woody Allen disaster that elicits both a cocked head and a dropped jaw. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanDec 7, 2017
Wonder Wheel may be scenic, but it goes nowhere — and slowly. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallDec 14, 2017
Wonder Wheel is one of Allen’s worst movies. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsDec 7, 2017
In code, Wonder Wheel dances along the edge of the writer-director’s off-screen life, namely the allegations by Dylan Farrow, Allen’s adopted daughter, of sexual molestation, and Allen’s controversial marriage to Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of Allen’s then-partner Mia Farrow. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTy BurrDec 6, 2017
Wonder Wheel, Allen’s new film, is one of the Very Bad Ones. Set in a post-WWII Coney Island that glows with the hues of popsicles at sunset, it’s a strained adultery melodrama that appears to have been written poorly on purpose, as a sour parody of 1950s theatrical clichés. Read full review
20
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghDec 7, 2017
The dialogue is agony. Read full review
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