Metacritic Movie Ratings
Phoebe in Wonderland Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 80

  out of 100

  The Hollywood Reporter

  The mesmerizing performance of Fanning as the gifted and troubled young Phoebe sparks the picture.

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• 63

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Elle Fanning is wondrous in Phoebe in Wonderland. But the movie is an uneven, unfocused amalgamation of ideas and moods that is at times deeply moving nonetheless.

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• 58

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  As the school drama teacher who tries to unlock ''the real,'' Patricia Clarkson makes high theatrical solemnity funny.

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• 40

  out of 100

  VarietyRonnie Scheib

  Partly produced by Lifetime, the pic attempts to elevate the disease-of-the-week movie into a moral dialectic between conformity and imagination.

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• 40

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  There are problems for us as well in Wonderland. Like its main characters, the film is having an identity crisis -- is it a parable for adults or a fable for children? Its childlike whimsy doesn't always fit with its very grown-up themes.

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• 40

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  Not even she (Patricia Clarkson), however, can save a movie that suffers from terminal self-enchantment.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The New York TimesStephen Holden

  Soon after that the movie simply stops dead in its tracks, as though the money had run out and the project had been called off in the middle of a scene that makes no psychological or dramatic sense. It leaves you frustrated and annoyed.

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