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Where the Wild Things Are

2009

Spike Jonze

Max Records, Catherine Keener, Pepita Emmerichs, Mark Ruffalo ...

6.2

27,700

Fantasy. Adventure. Drama An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world--a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Jonze has been able to make a movie where any reader of the book should be able to recognize all of the Things in sight. (...) The movie felt long to me (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Where the Wild Things Are is an alternately perfect and imperfect if always beautiful adaptation of the Maurice Sendak children’s book."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A precious, self-indulgent cinematic fable that not everyone is going to love. (...) The problem with this cast of characters is not so much their personalities but the way screenwriters Jonze and Eggers have turned them into neurotic adults with dysfunctional relationships."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"For all the money spent, the film's success is best measured by its simplicity and the purity of its innovation. Jonze has filmed a fantasy as if it were absolutely real, allowing us to see the world as Max sees it, full of beauty and terror. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)	POS

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