Wonder Boys 2000

Critics score:
81 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

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Susan Stark, Detroit News: World-weary has never been funnier or more fascinating than in Kloves' hands. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: One of the most accessible of joy rides. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Wonder Boys is like a George Cukor movie with a bad head cold -- slow, muffled and vague. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: While Maguire's blank shapelessness has left a hole in the center of other films, here he delivers a real performance rather than just his wide-eyed presence. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Glad to have been invited along. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: [Curtis Hanson] so intent on getting us to like his characters that he didn't give them enough juice. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: I don't think I've ever seen another American comedy that mixed rue and slapstick and sentiment in quite this way. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: With vivid characters, an ironic voice-over narrative, and a solidly written screenplay, Wonder Boys provides its share of small pleasures... Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Funny and touching. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: With a cast this terrific and a story this rich and wry, Wonder Boys really can't miss. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: An emotionally dishonest movie about emotionally dishonest people. Read more

Time Out: Wonder Boys digresses so entertainingly, you forget how quickly Grady got into the mess he's in, and can't imagine where we might be headed. Read more

Emanuel Levy, Variety: Michael Douglas gives the best perfromance of his career (to be remembered at Oscar time) in this screwball comedy about a college professor who's pushed into maturity by forces beyond his control; a well-acted coming-of-age saga for adults. Read more

Amy Taubin, Village Voice: Cinematographer Dante Spinotti, who here proves that dark, dreary weather and comedy are not incompatible. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Sexy and wry. Read more