Wonder Wheel
In the hustle and bustle of 1950s Coney Island, where the buzzing crowd comes and goes trudging slowly over the wooden boardwalks, silent stories of the everyday toilers who give life to the attraction unfold. Somewhere in a clam bar, there's the sad waitress Ginny, a one-time actress and now a suffering wife who's been given a second chance by the side of the well-intentioned but uncouth carousel operator, Humpty.
3 July 1982, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 July 1989, London, England, UK
29 July 1942, Brooklyn, New York, USA
6 May 1971, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
13 August 1964, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
15 May 1978, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
2 March 1971, Shkodër, Albania
31 January 1971, Derby, Connecticut, USA
January 03, 2018
... a combination of drama, tragedy, romance, some comedy, a side of gangster thriller... [Full review in Spanish]
December 14, 2017
Like the fairground ride for which it's named, "Wonder Wheel" is entertaining but not enlightening.
December 08, 2017
Whatever its director's motivations, a work so contemptuous of its own heroine is always going to border on the offensive.
December 29, 2017
... Allen manages to change the hilarity of his universe by a deranged portrait of absolute desolation in which all narrative elements converge due to their own discordance. [Full review in Spanish]
January 03, 2018
A sporadically agreeable misfire...
December 15, 2017
Allen, 82, has his ups and downs, and while there have been more downs than ups lately he is always worth the benefit of the doubt. But "Wonder Wheel" is a ride to nowhere.
December 12, 2017
As we watch Allen worry and nitpick over the way women fret over aging, painting Ginny as pathetic, jealous, insecure, and clownish, it's dull, unoriginal, and offensive. Frankly, we've have enough Woody Allen takes on this subject.
January 03, 2018
In any other inkwell [it] would be a striking experiment; within the filmography of Woody Allen is too similar to his other films. [Full Review in Spanish]
December 27, 2017
But the weird rhythms of the dialogue and the familiarity of the characters finally keep us from ever feeling invested in their story.
December 08, 2017
If 2016's Café Society was writer-director Woody Allen's attempt to introduce a younger generation to the world of Woody Allen, then this might just be his followup attempt to show the Kids of Today what a filmed Tennessee Williams play looks like.
December 29, 2017
Amid the fading romance of this Brooklyn amusement park, there's a wan lustre to the raging against the dying of the light by these weary, frazzled souls.
December 11, 2017
Wonder Wheel seems more like a cobbled-together afterthought than the romantic melodrama it seeks to be.
