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Beauty and the Beast and The Post inch up as Wonderstruck falls and we have debuts this month from Victoria and...

Amazon's contenders such as Wonderstruck and The Big Sick are artistically idiosyncratic, and so are their campaigns.

Not exact matches

Another U.S. streaming service, Amazon, also has a film in competition, Todd Haynes» Wonderstruck, but has not been subject to the same opposition as it does screen its films at cinemas as well as online.

Wonderstruck strikes a curious emotional tone, alternating between suspense and quiet wistfulness, with sudden surges of operatic intensity as the two timelines begin to connect.

With just a few titles yet to be rated (movies by Fatih Akin, Lynne Ramsay, and Ozon), Andrey Zvyagintsev's Loveless enters the weekend as the highest ranked with 3.2 stars — the only title to crack 3.0 — followed by Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck and Ruben Östlund's The Square.

Emily Blunt also stars, along with Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds (who you may recognize as the deaf actress from Wonderstruck).

With a few dips, Wonderstruck is gorgeous as an entire experience.

Emily Blunt also stars, along with kids Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds (who you may recognize as the deaf actress from Wonderstruck).

Honestly, I'm kind of at a loss as to why Wonderstruck has been virtually ignored.

Amazon and Roadside Attractions are opening Wonderstruck at the Arclight Hollywood and The Landmark in Los Angeles as well as Lincoln Plaza and Angelika Film Centers in New York Friday.

Here's a supplementary list of ten performances: Betty Buckley, articulate as a psychotherapist, and the protean James McAvoy playing against her in Split; Harris Dickinson, implosive with self - loathing in Beach Rats; two turns by Michael Fassbender, as the smarmy villains of Song to Song and Alien: Covenant; Milla Jovovich's valedictory sprint through Resident Evil: The Final Chapter; Barry Keoghan as a teenage sprite barely veiling his hostility in The Killing of a Sacred Deer; Keanu Reeves, put through his paces again in John Wick: Chapter 2; Lady Bird's callous, precocious, and heartbreaking Saoirse Ronan; newcomer Millicent Simmonds and her silent movie acting in Wonderstruck; octagenarian Lois Smith playing her age as Marjorie of Marjorie Prime; and Adrian Titieni, slouching and gloomy as a bad dad in Graduation.

Then, he looks at the new trailers for The Disaster Artist and Fifty Shades Freed before launching into reviews of the original Daddy's Home, its sequel Daddy's Home 2 as well as Murder on the Orient Express and Wonderstruck.

And Millicent Simmonds blew me away in Wonderstruck and she is just as incredible in this film.

The other main theme is for the loss that pervades the film, and in this mode the score is just as earnest as «Wonderstruck.»

So when another regular collaborator, Todd Haynes, asked him to score the earnest and decidedly un-ironic «Wonderstruck,» Burwell wrote something that, «in terms of things like earnestness, just raw emotional sincerity, it is probably as far as I've gone,» he said, «because that's just not the genre that I'm typically asked to assay.

Emily Blunt stars, along with Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds (who you may recognize as the fantastic deaf actress from Wonderstruck).

And Simmonds, the young deaf star of Todd Haynes» Wonderstruck, is as expressive here as she was there, just telegraphing horror instead of, you know, wonder.

Other notable highlights include period dramas — Julianne Moore in a buzzy role in Haynes» latest period drama, «Wonderstruck,» as well as Michel Hazanavicius» «Le Redoutable» — and offerings due to be distributed by nontraditional streaming networks: both Baumbach's «The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),» starring Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman, and Emma Thompson, and Bong Joon - ho's «Okja,» starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tilda Swinton, hail from Netflix, while Lynne Ramsay's «You Were Never Really Here» is an Amazon Studios production.

As one might expect from a melodrama, wonderstruck unfolds itself with deliberate care, taking its time to set its story, disorienting at first until it gradually comes into focus.

Todd Haynes» «Wonderstruck» has been chosen as the Centerpiece selection of the 55th New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced on Thursday.

And no, «Wonderstruck» isn't as magical as it would need to be to pull off the sleight - of - hand that Haynes is attempting.

««Wonderstruck» isn't as magical as it would need to be to pull off the sleight - of - hand that Haynes is attempting,» wrote TheWrap from Cannes.

My mind goes straight to Dylan # 1 of Haynes» 2007 masterpiece, I'm Not There, imagined as an 11 - year - old African - American boxcar runaway named Woody, who rambles away from Duluth, Minnesota (like Ben from Wonderstruck) bound for New York town and eventual glory - but not before he can say he's been «hittin» some hard travelin'too».

Wonderstruck is so inventive and sincere in its presentation of creativity, I firmly believe it will live on as a relic with the power to enamour future generations of children and adults alike to the finer things in life for decades to come, especially considering its profoundly timeless qualities.

Then there are Andrea Riseborough (Battle of the Sexes) as the hairdresser who catches Billie Jean King's eye — and for good reason; Julianne Moore (Wonderstruck) in dual roles that traverse decades; Melissa Leo (Novitiate) as a Reverend Mother in crisis as the Catholic church attempts reform; Michelle Williams (All the Money in the World) as Gail Harris, once married to a Getty and now unable to pay her son's kidnapping ransom; and Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water) playing Zelda, a chatty co-worker and close confidant to Sally Hawkins» mute protagonist at a top - secret U.S. government facility.

While Noah Jupe is strong as the decent, young son, the standout performer here is hearing - impaired Millicent Simmonds — from Todd Haynes» Wonderstruck — as the family's deaf daughter, whose particular issues dovetail unsettlingly with the approach of the monsters she can't hear coming.

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Another longtime collaboration with an adult - skewing director yields far more innocent and magical results as Burwell scores the first child - friendly film by Todd Haynes («Mildred Pierce,» «Carol») with «Wonderstruck.»

As previously announced, the NYFF55 Opening Night is Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying, Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck is Centerpiece, Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel is Closing Night, and the Retrospective honors Robert Mitchum's centenary.

A thoroughly self - aware object, full of unexpected marvels one might not consider for eternal display, it was on my mind throughout Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck, which, like all of Haynes's films, is a thoroughly self - aware object, full of unexpected marvels, and which takes both museums and film itself as its subjects.

Wonderstruck is also as much about the magic of New York City as it is about the magic of connection.

Last fall, Amazon dominated the New York Film Festival with opener «Last Flag Flying» from Richard Linklater, «Wonderstruck» as the centerpiece gala, and Woody Allen's scandal - tainted «Wonder Wheel» closing it out — but taking those movies into the crowded fall marketplace was another matter.

«Wonderstruck» Release Date: TBD Director: Todd Haynes Starring: Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Cory Michael Smith and Tom Noonan Synopsis: The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

The film, which has been interpreted as a commentary on the empty bromides of self - help culture as well as an allegory of the AIDS crisis, became a breakthrough for both Haynes and Moore, who would go on to collaborate on such ravishing period pieces as Far from Heaven and Wonderstruck (which premiered at Cannes last month).

At the moment, Wonderstruck is still my # 1 for Best Picture and Best Director but some of the mixed and negative reviews sent some of the Gold Rush Gang into a frenzy of predictions updates and where Wonderstruck stood at # 1 in both of those categories at the beginning of the month, it's now at # 3 as of this writing, proving that awards predicting can be a fickle mistress.

Set 50 years ago, Wonderstruck will feature the likes of Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore and simultaneously follows a young boy in the Midwest and a young girl in New York as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

Some emotional islands betwixt the terror, such as a meaningful if conveniently timed reconciliation between Lee and his daughter (Millicent Simmonds, an impressive screen presence here as in Todd Haynes» Wonderstruck), recalls Bryan Bertino's The Monster (2016), in which Zoe Kazan must protect her child from a menacing creature whilst stranded, Cujo - like in her unresponsive motor vehicle.

And Amazon, which had multiple selections at Cannes last year, returns with films such as «Wonderstruck» and «You Were Never Really Here,» Lynne Ramsay's movie based on the Jonathan Ames novel that stars Joaquin Phoenix.

I left «Wonderstruck» dry - eyed but occasionally charmed, particularly by a sly reference to a beloved work of children's literature (fans of «From the Mixed - Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler» will recognize both a bookshop's name and a covetable sleepover), and by the idea of Julianne Moore as a silent - film star.

Wonderstruck follows the kids as they try to find something — anything — with which to connect.

The actors — including Krasinksi's real - life wife Emily Blunt (Sicario), Millicent Simmonds (Wonderstruck), Noah Jupe (Wonder) and Krasinski, himself — hold our attention, as well, except in moments of expositional dialogue that would have better been left unsaid.

There is some conceptual weight to drive the film along: an homage to silent cinema, an index of Todd Hayne's filmography, a flight of fancy along the road of childlike wonder and a favourable gesture of the impossible... but none of this adds up to a feature film, and instead Wonderstruck comes off about as insightfully as a cluttered brainstorm session from a writer's blocked first grader who can't quite figure out what his thoughts are all about.

As for Simmonds, I've only seen her in two films, and she's already a favorite; as in Wonderstruck, this deaf performer impresses with her clarity and forcAs for Simmonds, I've only seen her in two films, and she's already a favorite; as in Wonderstruck, this deaf performer impresses with her clarity and forcas in Wonderstruck, this deaf performer impresses with her clarity and force.

As the film's unnamed characters scavenge for supplies, they wander around the store fully clothed, but barefoot, communicating through sign language learned due to their daughter's (Millicent Simmonds, Wonderstruck) deafness.

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Earlier this summer, NYFF announced Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying as Opening Night and Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck as the Centerpiece selection.

«Wonderstruck,» tells the story of a young boy Ben (played by Oakes Fegley) and a young girl Rose (played by newcomer Millicent Simmonds), told fifty years apart simultaneously as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

You know I've known him since he was at the vanguard of the new queer cinema in the early 90's His perspective as a queer man and the way he tells stories about outsiders, I knew would be the perfect perspective for telling the story about these three children in «Wonderstruck» who are each outsiders in their own way.

Netflix's buzzy Okja, directed by Bong Joon - ho and starring Tilda Swinton, makes the cut, as does Wonderstruck, Todd Haynes's follow - up to last year's quietly stunning Carol.

Cannes hasn't been the best launching point for major Oscar contenders as of late (for winners, at least) so looking to the two highest profile films that lost — Wonderstruck and Happy End — I don't think their losses here will have a big impact on their awards chances.