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MA (AUSTRALIA)
2003
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Positive Reviews
19
Negative reviews
18
Average Rating
2.7
/5
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2.5
True crime procedurals can have a certain fascination, but not when theyre jumbled glimpses of what might or might not have happened involving a lot o ..
Rogerebert
1.5
Okay, thats all fine and good whatever floats your boat, as they say.
Austin Chronicle
1.9
Teorema is a film thats short on incident but not at all lightweight or unserious.
3.0
But it looks a million miles better than its predecessor, and thats a start.
Telegraph
1.3
If for some reason you are fascinated by the Wonderland murders, look up the Rolling Stone article of 1989 that brought national attention to the grue ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
An elusive but dazzlingly sleazy examination of addiction, selfishness, greed and self destruction in the California sun.
Tv Guide
3.0
Kilmers persona is strong, and he brings a certain energy to the screen, but he does nothing to make John Holmes any more interesting than the dope ad ..
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
While the Rashomon like multiple versions of events are riveting, Coxs main misstep is to leave out real resonance.
Shadows On The Wall
2.5
By Lisa Leigh Connors Staff * Vapid, unoriginal, gratuitously violent.
Cs Monitor
1.3
Wonderland represents another low rung on the downward descent of actor Val Kilmer.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
2.5
Wonderland skips lightly along the sewers of human depravity as if the trip alone was worth the telling.
Boston
4.5
Does anything say summer of love hangover better than a shabby, worn out porn star hooked on hard stuff like coke and heroin I think not.
4.5
The deliberately chaotic film technique used in Wonderland admirably reinforces the idea that truth is difficult, at times unknowable.
Reel Talk Reviews
3.0
Ultimately I found the film to be fairly compelling, mainly because of Kilmers performance, but it does suffer a bit from the lack of focus that this ..
Flim Threet
1.9
Wonderland is completely hollow and devoid of purpose... uncompelling, unorganized and unexciting.
Hollywood
3.0
Director James Cox aims to impress with style rather than engage with storytelling.
Seattle Pi
4.0
You dont care much anyway the film is brimming with soulless characters caught at the end of an era.
Standard
2.0
Val Kilmer (The Salton Sea) fails to manifest the eccentric character of notorious porn legend Johnny Wadd Holmes in this artful but unbalanced dramat ..
Coles Mithey
3.8
But Wonderlands facts arent trying to compete with its predecessors fictions.
Spliced Wire
2.0
It might not make wads of cash, but Wonderland will definitely get a rise out of audiences.
E Online
1.5
The vaporous Wonderland never moves beyond its grungily romanticized view of the past.
La Weekly
4.5
If it werent so nicely dramatized, polite society would want to look away.
Varia Gate
1.5
looks good, sounds great, and essentially its just one long party until the debauchery inevitably comes to collect its tax
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
1.9
Along with their tickets to Wonderland, moviegoers should also be given a moist towelette. That way after the film they wont have to stand in line at ..
Kansas City
4.4
Co writer and director James Cox simply doesnt seem to be up to this type of filmmaking, and too often the film felt chaotic, muddled and disorganized ..
2.0
Wonderland is in your face. Any deeper connections, like those to heart and mind, get lost in the splash.
Guide Live
4.5
An unsettling, sordid, overly stylized and intensely well done drama.
Freep
2.0
It wasnt the incessant bleakness that bothered me, but the lack of a compelling reason to endure it.
Film Blather
2.5
Watching a movie about these wasted lives just made me feel like I was wasting mine for sitting through it.
TheMovieChicks.com
1.5
The movies blunt imagery emphasizes the horrific nature of the crime, but it also feels like Cox is bludgeoning the viewer.
IGN Movies
3.0
If you can get past the agitated visual gimmicks, theres just enough mystery to sink your teeth in to.
Eclipse Magazine
4.5
Director/co writer James Cox does a superlative job of holding the reins on this four in hand cinematic collage, showing the same story from several p ..
Fantastic A Daily
3.5
Proves that John Holmes wasnt all about dingus; his other interests included drugs and sliminess.
Supercala.com
1.5
Its theoretically possible to make a fascinating film about a thieving, self indulgent, freebasing, treacherous scumbag who pimps his girlfriend to a ..
Charlotte
0.5
...real bottom of the barrel stuff, a scummy story about scummy people.
Boulder Weekly
3.1
Sadly Wonderland slips and clucks through its own artful delivery ultimately creating nothing more then a kinetic mess of a film with glimpses of geni ..
Blunt Review
1.0
This film, however, will fade away quicker than Jenna Jameson when she hits thirty five.
Bangit Out
4.4
Manages to move beyond its bloody rage by spinning a complex narrative thats one of the years most compelling stories.
Auf Muth
2.0
A&E Investigative Reports would have done the story far more justice than this watered down silly film ever could.
Film Fest
3.0
Intense, though at times too frenetic, with an energetic performance by Val Kilmer.
Groups Google
2.0
Rarely has so much of so little consequence been so closely examined.
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