Let Clarkson and Fanning take you to the rabbit hole of seductive enchantment that defines this movie. And don't ask what to do -- jump.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
So realistic are Phoebe's quicksilver emotions that at first it doesn't seem Fanning is acting at all. That helps to ground the film, which swings seamlessly from the world of grown-up expectations to that of childhood reverie and rebellion.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Robert Wilonsky
Writer-director Daniel Barnz's film is profoundly stirring, if also occasionally maddening.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Elle Fanning is wondrous in Phoebe in Wonderland. But the movie is an uneven, unfocused amalgamation of ideas and moods that is at times deeply moving nonetheless.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Phoebe in Wonderland gradually loses its grip on tone and believability, climaxing with a show-must-go-on moment that's just plain silly. Thankfully, Barnz knows exactly where to end his film: on the face of a girl, and an actress, at the crossroads.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
Its fancifulness is at times too clunky, its pathos too strained. But Barnz has a secret weapon, one that's 4 feet tall and looks to weigh about 60 pounds: Elle Fanning.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
As the school drama teacher who tries to unlock ''the real,'' Patricia Clarkson makes high theatrical solemnity funny.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
Think of Phoebe in Wonderland as "A Beautiful Mind," only for kids. And with Elle Fanning, Dakota's little sister, in the Russell Crowe role of the gifted outsider, tormented by demons within.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Betsy Sharkey
There are problems for us as well in Wonderland. Like its main characters, the film is having an identity crisis -- is it a parable for adults or a fable for children? Its childlike whimsy doesn't always fit with its very grown-up themes.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Soon after that the movie simply stops dead in its tracks, as though the money had run out and the project had been called off in the middle of a scene that makes no psychological or dramatic sense. It leaves you frustrated and annoyed.Read Full Review »
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