The magical-realist fairytale Wonderstruck takes its cue from Oscar Wilde’s famous aphorism: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Two lonely 12-year-olds, both stargazers and separated by half a century, go in search of an answer to where they belong.
04 April 2018, The Tablet
Todd Haynes' fairytale Wonderstruck is charming but flawed
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