Next Stop Wonderland

Smart and beguiling, it manages the impressive feat of believing wholeheartedly in the power of love without checking its mind at the door.Read Full Review »

Anderson brings compassion to his amused sense of yuppie tragicomedy, as he does to his nuanced understanding of Boston, the setting of this appealing fairy tale.Read Full Review »

Shot with a shaky hand-held camera, Wonderland is a sentimental fairy tale with a gritty documentary feel.Read Full Review »

Next Stop Wonderland isn't really much more than a beautifully acted, finely edited sitcom, but it creates and sustains an intelligent, seriocomic mood better than any recent film about the urban single life.Read Full Review »

The style of the filmmaking, the freewheeling handheld camera movement, the associative editing, and the buoyant Brazilian score convey Anderson's sense that chance plays a major role in our lives and that what's happening on the periphery is often more important than what's staring us in the face.Read Full Review »

It's the individual characters, so carefully crafted, who count, as opposed to a tidy conclusion.Read Full Review »

There are times when, as diverting as it can be, Next Stop, Wonderland feels like a lengthy prologue to an as-yet unmade film.Read Full Review »

Like too many young filmmakers, Anderson seems to equate honesty with choppy editing, bad lighting (so harsh in a couple of shots you can see the pancake on Davis' face) and herky-jerky camera movements.Read Full Review »