Wendy

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Wendy

PG-13

Released Feb 28, 2020

1h 52m

Adventure

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Lost on a mysterious island, a girl fights to save her family, her freedom and the joyous spirit of youth.

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Critics Consensus

Wendy dares to do something different with its classic source material; unfortunately, the movie's breathtaking visuals are at odds with a flawed take on the story.

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Clarisse Loughrey

Independent (UK)

[Wendy] sees the director double down on his style while finding little reason to justify it.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 14, 2021

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Dan Jolin

Empire Magazine

A new take on Peter Pan that actually works, delivering all the visual richness you'd hope for from the film-maker behind Beasts Of The Southern Wild.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 13, 2021

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

While by no means perfect, Wendy ... has originality, folklore, and old-school Americana to recommend it.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 13, 2021

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Sometimes Zeitlin is too literal, sometimes he’s too vague. The occasional salty dialogue from the kids feels forced, and not all of the non-professional performances click. But those things never rob the movie of its imagination, emotion, and grit.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 21, 2022

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Jeremy Aspinall

Radio Times

The metaphors are sprinkled liberally like fairy dust, as childish imagination and joy clashes with the reality and bitterness wrought by old age.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 14, 2021

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

An astonishing riff on Peter Pan, this film is both earthy and dreamy at the same time.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 19, 2021

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tubambino

If You rate this movie a 5 You must have Brain Damage,Drug Addict or Just retarded. You know this movie was Bad and Waste of time. The lil girl was a good actor the story was awful.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/27/20

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Felicia

IMO children younger then 8 mite not get the movie it was hard for me my 9 year old grand needed to explain😂😂😂😂

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/08/20

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Gregory S

Well, it’s a little better than Pan. I do enjoy different takes on stories, but if you change to much, it’s not the story. They changed way to much and should have just came up with something completely new.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

09/06/25

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Alex H

Is great film don’t understand why alot of people didn’t like maybe they have no imagination

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/06/24

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Kyle M

Youthful performances decently carry the timeless tale with modernized edges considered as attempted re-imaginative realism, incoherently but admirably discusses our sensual basis of time through surreal uncertainty. (B-)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/14/24

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Torin F

WENDY is an ambitious and unconventional take on the classic tale, and benefits from the same directorial approach that made Beasts of the Southern Wild such a remarkable film debut. Wendy has an impressive young cast, and succeeds in establishing an atmosphere all its own. The film departs from the classic Peter Pan tale in odd ways, however, offering its own idiosyncratic and deeply melancholy take on growing old, and the plot seems to accord with the movie's internal fantasy logic while not maintaining any consistent metaphoric insight. It's engaging for sure, but perhaps ultimately a bit unsatisfying.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/16/24

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Lost on a mysterious island, a girl fights to save her family, her freedom and the joyous spirit of youth.

Director: Benh Zeitlin
Producer: Becky Glupczynski, Dan Janvey, Paul Mezey, Josh Penn
Screenwriter: Benh Zeitlin, Eliza Zeitlin
Distributor: Searchlight Pictures
Production Co: Journeyman Pictures, Department of Motion Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Brief Violent/Bloody Images)
Genre: Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 28, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 17, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $138.3K
Runtime: 1h 52m

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