Wonder Boys Critic Reviews

With so much going for it, how could the movie be such a dud?Read the full review

Quite pleasant.Read the full review

Massively inventive, Wonder Boys is spiked with fresh, perverse humor that flows naturally from the straight-faced playing.Read the full review

A sweet screenful of quirky chaos.Read the full review

A handsomely mounted, graceful production that is well-played across the board.Read the full review

The sentimentality overtakes Wonder Boys when, in the last half hour, it tries to make nice with its characters and fashion a deep message from a trivial story.Read the full review

Sweet, flaky, and more than a little aimless.Read the full review

Michael Douglas digs deep and delivers one of his best performances in Wonder Boys -- a comic dazzler of roguish wit and touching gravity that is driven by characters, not jokes.Read the full review

The most accurate movie about campus life that I can remember.Read the full review