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Oct 14, 2017 · Wonder Wheel. Directed by: Woody Allen. Starring: Kate Winslet, Justin Timberlake, Juno Temple, James Belushi. Genres: Drama, Romance. Rated the #378 best film of 2017.
Wonder Wheel is a wonder of despair juxtaposed with the cheap nostalgia and common lyricism evoked by its 1950's Coney Island setting. Ginny (Kate Winslet) is trapped in a loveless marriage with a Ralph Kramden-like carney, Humpty (Jim Belushi). Indeed, their lives are destined to come tumbling down.
Dec 1, 2017 · Woody Allen goes dark with Wonder Wheel, a movie far more bleak and more adult than its PG-13 rating would suggest. Framed intentionally like a stilted stage play—something that would come from the mind of Mickey—Wonder Wheel has its moments of levity and characteristic Allen-esque wit. But eventually any wit or hope or affection goes up in ...
Oct 13, 2017 · October 13, 2017. Courtesy of Jessica Miglio/Amazon Studios. There is simultaneously a beautiful movie and a good play hidden somewhere in Woody Allen’s new melodrama, Wonder Wheel, a slight and ...
Dec 7, 2017 · Set in 1950, which doesn’t stop one character from catching the 1933 movie “Flying Down to Rio” at the local bijou, Woody Allen’s “Wonder Wheel” is narrated by a budding dramatist ...
Oct 18, 2017 · Wonder Wheel is Blue Jasmine 2.0, only not nearly as sharp or well-acted. Set in 1950s Coney Island, the film is told from the writerly perspective of our narrator, Mickey Rubin (a cloying Justin ...
Dec 5, 2017 · [tab title="Movie Review"] If it weren’t for Kate Winslet’s fabulous performance and some wonderfully vivid cinematography from Vittorio Storaro, the award-winning cinematographer who shot Apocalypse Now and The Last Emperor, I’d say that director Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel is busted. It’s not entirely, though, but damn if isn’t a ...
