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Wonka
Directed by
Paul King
PG
2023
1h 57m
Adventure
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Comedy
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6.9
82%
90%
7.0
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Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.
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Cast of Wonka
Timothée Chalamet
Willy Wonka
Calah Lane
Noodle
Keegan-Michael Key
Chief of Police
Hugh Grant
Oompa Loompa
Paterson Joseph
Arthur Slugworth
Olivia Colman
Mrs. Scrubbit
Tom Davis
Bleacher
Jim Carter
Abacus Crunch
Rowan Atkinson
Father Julius
Matt Lucas
Prodnose
Mathew Baynton
Ficklegruber
Natasha Rothwell
Piper Benz
Rakhee Thakrar
Lottie Bell
Rich Fulcher
Larry Chucklesworth
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Officer Affable
Simon Farnaby
Basil, Zoo Security Guard / Screenplay
Ellie White
Gwennie, Mistress of the Keys
Sally Hawkins
Willy's Mother
Colin O'Brien
Young Willy Wonka
Freya Parker
Miss Bon Bon
Wonka Ratings & Reviews
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
At its best, "Wonka" can be melt-in-your-mouth fun, but what it lacks is weirdness - the very thing that made Dahl's stories, and the earlier "Wonka" movies, so memorable.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Wonka is carefully calibrated to bring joy. But do we want our joy to be something capable of being manipulated with buttons and knobs, with grand but somehow flat-looking sets?
The Atlantic
David Sims
Wonka is saccharine, yes, but if you're going to indulge, it's better to be in the hands of a master confectioner.
Chicago Reader
Joey Shapiro
I can't be upset at a movie with this much warmth and craft across the board, one that believes so earnestly...
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Timothée Chalamet underwhelms in a scattershot origin story that mixes too many ingredients into its chocolate-covered plot.
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
You can hear Roald Dahl rolling in his grave, but gently, gently.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
King is above all a pleasure-giver. He wants to heighten the knockabout joys of unfettered high spirits.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
A breezy two-hour musical comedy that hopes to make the audience shed a sentimental tear or two, but is mainly content to amuse, delight, and inspire cheers when the bad guys are defeated.
Boston Globe
Odie Henderson
At one point during the screening, I wrote, "My God, this is working!" in my notebook. I shouldn't have been so surprised.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Chris Hewitt
King has a graceful, light touch and, somehow, he has gotten everyone associated with his movie to buy into his very specific, very endearing worldview.
ABC News
Peter Travers
No one will ever play the bright comic exterior and dark soul of Willy Wonka like Gene Wilder, but Timothée Chalamet takes a charming shot at it in this wispy musical origin story that earns a pass for offering much needed family fun for the holidays.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
It is brimming with whimsy, charm, and heart, and that is movie magic...Like Paddington, Wonka brings out the best in the people around him, and in the delighted audience, too.
Wall Street Journal
Kyle Smith
Willy Wonka is funny and sinister. Timothée Chalamet is neither funny nor sinister... Still, almost everything else about the film works, thanks to the inspired silliness of writer-director Paul King
Rolling Stone
David Fear
You're thankful that King injects a sense of kindness, a kookiness, and the care to make this something besides leftover Dahl parts. Yet you wish that Chalamet was bringing something, anything, to what too often feels like character karaoke.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
We don't need a musical origin story of Willy Wonka, but how can we not chomp down on this whimsical and wonderful tale? Don't even try to say no. Just enjoy the indulgence.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
It takes only moments into the film, when star Timothée Chalamet first opens his mouth to sing, to discover Wonka's two fatal errors: The songs are not good, and the guy singing them is even worse.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
King once again shows how deftly he can walk a fine line between child-friendly absurdity, emotional authenticity, and outlandishly inventive comedic ingenuity, and this helps make Wonka 2023's most scrumiddlyumptious surprise.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Alison Willmore
It never reaches the singularly compelling strangeness of the source material, but it lands somewhere close enough to be mostly satisfying.
NPR
Linda Holmes
This is an entertaining, upbeat, imaginative film, even if it doesn't feel much like Willy Wonka.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The movie is overly busy, as these kinds of eager-to-please diversions tend to be, and at two hours it overstays its welcome.
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