It has a light touch, a disarming cast, a well-developed sense of humor and a lot of charm. [27 Feb 1987, p.C17]Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It is not about whether the hero will get the girl. It is about whether the hero should get the girl, and when was the last time you saw a movie that even knew that could be the question?Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
A hand-me-down cast? Far from it. Masterson and Stoltz possess talent and charm to spare... Wonderful aspires to be little more than the hot-and- happening teen flick of the moment. At that it succeeds.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
Mary Stuart Masterson, a delicate blond, steals the show as the sensitive gal under the tomboy's leather jacket, her natural magnetism offsetting the story's predictability.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Richard Harrington
It's Masterson who dominates Some Kind of Wonderful. Like her energy, Masterson's beauty is kinetic, internalized, and she's a winner even if the film itself runs third in the Hughes opus on teenhood.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
Thin, gulpy, awkward, it stands before us, artlessly begging sympathy but betraying its creator's worst weakness. [9 Mar 1987, p.86]Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
Hughes is just treading lukewarm water. Stotz is the blandest of his teen heroes yet. [16 Mar 1987]Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sheila Benson
Did you miss "Pretty in Pink," with the glowing Molly Ringwald? No problem. Some Kind of Wonderful, which has the same director -- Howard Deutch -- also has the same story... The real complaint, however, is that Hughes has absolutely nothing new to report -- no fresh perspectives, no gratefully received maturity, nothing added or depleted. [27 Feb 1987]Read Full Review »
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