Wonderland
Lions Gate Films | Release Date: October 3, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
21
Negative:
10
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38
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
It's hard to care what really happened on Wonderland Ave. when the audience hates the neighborhood. Read full review
38
New York PostMegan Lehmann
The problem is that there's not a sympathetic character among the nasty, brutish males. And the women, except for a flashy cameo by a swimsuit-clad Paris Hilton, are given short shrift. Read full review
38
PremiereScott Warren
The filmmakers may have wanted to deconstruct any sense of a formal, cohesive narrative; instead, they have merely demolished it. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Wonderland marks a "biopic" first: Moviegoers will know less about the real-life subject going out than they did going in. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
It's theoretically possible to make a fascinating film about a thieving, self-indulgent, freebasing, treacherous scumbag who pimps his girlfriend to a gangster and contributes nothing to society. Wonderland isn't that film. Read full review
30
SalonStephanie Zacharek
It's not much fun, and it's not particularly edifying. Even people who are curious about Holmes (he was better known by his screen name, Johnny Wadd; here, he's played by Val Kilmer) won't find out much about him. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Possibly one of the dullest takes on a real-life murder mystery, this gutter’s-eye-view of the waning days of Los Angeles porn king John "Johnny Wadd" Holmes is barely as interesting as one of the big man’s films, and a lot less revelatory. Read full review
25
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
While "Boogie Nights" was a dirge for the death of pleasure (which coincided with the death of the porn-film industry), Wonderland is death warmed over. Literally. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
Sordid, brutal and depressing. Read full review
20
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Overblown, overheated, overdirected, overacted, overlong. Read full review
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