Wonderstruck

"For the first time in memory, Haynes is working with a story whose plot outweighs its concept, as lovely as that concept often is."

"An ambitious doohickey impersonating a work of art."

"Haynes lends the film an air of childish magic and Carter Burwell's magnificent front-and-centre score adds energy and character."

"Disappointmentstruck and even rather boredomstruck are reasonable descriptions of my emotional state, having sat through this contrived, self-conscious and twee YA fantasy from director Todd Haynes."

"While some might question the key role that serendipity plays in this story, more will respond to the immaculate period work, the engaged approach to disability and the gradual swell of emotion which builds to a belter of a tear jerking climax."

"Haynes ... puts a kid-friendly spin on his usual themes of isolation and frustrated longing in "Wonderstruck," an ingenious and often captivating adaptation of Brian Selznick's 2011 children's novel."

"Alive with the magic of pictures and the mysteries of silence, this is an uncommonly grownup film about children, communication, connection and memory."