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Where the Wild Things Are

2009
★ 6.7 / 10
Yearning for escape and adventure, a young boy runs away from home and sails to an island filled with creatures that take him in as their king.
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Reviews
★★★★★
A creative boy, very sensitive at his age (as children can be at times), feeling disenfranchised with his family, seemingly with no obvious close friends, whose hurt feelings don't dawn on anybody, escapes away to an island filled with the unpackaging of his m...
★★★★★
A beautiful, audacious, roughly-hewn motion picture (adjectives that are no doubt overused in describing the picture's modus operandi), Spike Jonze's adaptation Maurice Sendak's adored children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" taps into the innocent, volatil...
★★★★★
This is a huge success, and I believe that it will reach that status now called "classic," being experienced over and over in whatever ways that classics will in the future. I'll let others note the purity in the way that sharp childhood is evoked. It is the...
★★★★★
Where the Wild Things are is a well written, intelligent, and very cold drama about the often challenging interactions within a closed group of people, the complexities of leadership and the cost of selfishness. It's not a movie about imagination or childhood...
★★★★★
If you haven't yet read Maurice Sendak's classic book, you can go ahead and do that now because its only 347 words long. This review I'm typing ended up being almost twice as long. The point I'm making is that the original book didn't have much of a plot; its...
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