Friday 17 November 2017

'Wonder' Review: Family Tearjerker Avoids Cloying Cliches (for the Most Part)

On the surface. Wonder looks like the kind of family-pandering pap that makes me want to run the other way. Do you really want to spend two hours watching the plight of a young boy born with a congenital facial deformity that gets him ridiculed when he musters the courage to go outside without hiding under his favorite astronaut helmet? Based on a 2012 bestseller by R. J. Palacio that

This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: 'Wonder' Review: Family Tearjerker Avoids Cloying Cliches (for the Most Part)



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