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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 11 Dec 2009

The script is brilliant, lacing the dialogue with dark, melancholy humour and subtly ensuring that almost every line, visual or action on the…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 11 Dec 2009

Jonze's inventive approach to Maurice Sendak's classic children's book continually confounds our expectations with an approach that's so offhanded…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for News of the World (402) on 11 Dec 2009

From that belting opening shot to the emotional gut- punch of an ending, I was bewitched by it. In fact, Wild Things... I think I love you…

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By Grant Lauchlan (65) for Daily Record (UK) (215) on 11 Dec 2009

Where The Wild Things Are is a big disappointment…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 11 Dec 2009

This is filmmaking hard-wired straight to the heart: wild, untamed and quite, quite brilliant…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 07 Dec 2009

A gloomy, self-conscious art movie version of the children's book that received the benediction of the author which should tell you something…

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By Rubin Safaya (167) for Cinemalogue (704) on 06 Dec 2009

a total collapse of coherent storytelling--disconnected scenes of running, jumping, throwing, thrashing, and destroying interspersed with…

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By Kate Jinx (6) for Concrete Playground (635) on 04 Dec 2009

The film has the handmade quality and intimacy that Jonze so clearly was after, but it lingers too much in a kind of dragging, adult sadness…

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By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 03 Dec 2009

Imagination is the real star of Sendak's classic and Jonze and his co-writer, Dave Eggers, have expanded on its brief text to spin a story…

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By Jason Di Rosso (253) for MovieTime, ABC Radio National (314) on 03 Dec 2009

Jonze evokes the amplified emotions of childhood, from jubilation to despair, with such a well crafted sense of timing that he carries us along…

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By Rob Humanick (476) for Projection Booth (270) on 03 Dec 2009

Occupying that realm somewhere between a complete mess and a flawed masterpiece…

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By Margaret Pomeranz (380) for At the Movies (Australia) (716) on 02 Dec 2009

It's a strange thing that this story has had such a hold over generations of children, it's quite a dark tale. And that darkness is in the film…

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By Des Partridge (52) for Courier Mail (Australia) (71) on 02 Dec 2009

Jonze has succeeded splendidly in making a movie about the challenges of childhood, and it's likely the material will resonate more with the…

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By Bruce Bennett (577) for Spectrum (St. George, Utah) (575) on 02 Dec 2009

What we have here is a challenging, psychological rendering of a child's classic that may indeed be too unexciting and melancholy for kids,…

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By Erin Free (200) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 01 Dec 2009

The real beauty of Where The Wild Things Are comes with its simplicity…

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By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 28 Nov 2009

This film is not for me, but I do recognise its accomplishments and see how it appeals to the fan base, and how the young Max's journey connects…

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By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 20 Nov 2009

Wild Things might have been just another crass cartoon. Most filmmakers would have made the monsters' wild rumpus the film's raison d'être…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 19 Nov 2009

Feelings of loss and frustration, acted out so loudly, raucously, and repeatedly, are at the center of Where the Wild Things Are…

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By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 15 Nov 2009

The emotionality that is aspired to doesn't rise to the occasion and leaves you as deprived of dramatic nourishment as the poor boy who went…

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By Jeffrey Westhoff (767) for Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (767) on 11 Nov 2009

Jonze creates perhaps the most artful film aimed at children since The Red Balloon, and one with unusually deep emotional resonance…

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