Woody Allen stabs at a Eugene O’Neill and fails to elicit performances from his actors that vibe well with each other and the script.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2022

The movie never keeps its footing and becomes little more than an aimless endurance test.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The way Allen directs Winslet into a great performance with a tragic end is nothing short of impressive

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2022

A thinly plotted misfire that gets on the nerves rather than under the skin.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 31, 2021

Yet another miss from a once-great filmmaker whose batting average gets worse every year.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Aug 24, 2021

There is enough in 'Wonder Wheel' to love and plenty to detest.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 15, 2021

How much you enjoy all this will depend on your attitude to latterday Woody Allen. You'll need tolerance for the heightened dialogue and contrived set-up... Get past these, however, and you'll be rewarded by Winslet's incandescent leading turn.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 20, 2020

When the last scene played out and the credits rolled, I wondered what the objective was. What did Allen want to tell us here? Was there a goal? I felt nothing.

Full Review | Nov 10, 2020

As it is, Wonder Wheel does not take on an important existence of its own. Allen's self-conscious touch makes itself felt here too.

Full Review | Aug 6, 2020

This is one of [Woody Allen's] poorest writing efforts in recent memory, as each piece of dialogue comes off as half baked, stagey, and pedantic.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 17, 2020

Allen has made it as a period drama and, although it is beautiful due to the colorful frames of the light master, Vittorio Storaro, the solutions he proposes for the idyllic tangles of the characters seem insubstantial to me. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 27, 2020

This warm-weather-hatched treat, filmed in the summer of 2016 for what seems today like a shoestring $25 million budget, is well worth your time.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2020

Sure, the cinematography by the great Vittorio Storaro is sublime... but when the performances and writing are so universally grating and heightened, my instincts are to recoil from the screen.

Full Review | May 20, 2020

Winslet steals the show as the yearning wife, but the real star is veteran cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (The Conformist, Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor).

Full Review | Apr 8, 2020

It's a pleasant little chunk of Allen's brand sure to lightly please fans and maybe a few others.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2020

Had Allen tried something akin to Godard's King Lear with this story, viewers might get more from Wonder Wheel than a gorgeous visual palette with an empty center.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Mar 8, 2020

... the finished product feels like a lot of individual performances that don't quite fit together.

Full Review | Oct 10, 2019

If Allen remains besotted with the same types of angsty mavens going on five decades now, this dress may be familiar, but it's a custom number made only for Kate Winslet.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2019

A high level visual that fascinates even when dramatic interest comes late. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 2, 2019

Pacing deficiencies apart, it knows how to engage the audience, stealing a piece of our heart with sweetness and sense of humor, and destroying the other half of us with melancholy and discomfort. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 2, 2019