Wendy

"Very much a work of atmospheria, sometimes maddening but with a style, a mood, a feeling impossible to shake."

"Zeitlin has no fresh take on the material... it's the usual clichés about resisting the encroaching disillusionment of adult life, filtered through a "grounded" reboot that leeches all the actual excitement and adventure, the magic, out of the story."

"There's a raw, unrefined energy to Wendy that's charming at first, but quickly gets tiresome"

"Benh Zeitlin's take on Peter Pan from Wendy's female perspective is a mixed bag that drifts from exhilarating to enervating, burying visionary wonders and a gifted cast of amateurs in chaotic clutter that deserves, well, the hook."

"The core concept of Wendy, in which Wendy isn't Peter's devoted follower so much as his headstrong, courageous challenger, is a good one; the movie doesn't do much with it."

"I'm not a fan of the film. There were many aspects from a filmmaking and storytelling process that I found admirable, but I just can't see myself recommending it."

"Your wandering attention may begin to fixate on other deficiencies: the flimsiness of the narrative scaffolding, the thinness of the characterisations and the filmmakers' tendency to mistake platitudes for poetry."

"Zeitlin - who proves more sentimental about childhood than Barrie - keeps the parts whirring, casting about for meaning that never fully comes."

"Zeitlin's film skillfully explores the despair and beauty of growing up on a dying planet."

"Though the film contains some mesmerising visuals, the story does not correspond to the magical images on screen."

"Wendy is undoubtedly self-assured and in-your-face, and the gorgeous location photography certainly has an impact. But it's wrecked by chapters so lengthy they become simply excruciating."

""Wendy" is fun for a while, but as it drags on, it becomes harder to follow - and worse, boring."

"Every frame of the film is excitingly alive and freshly conceived, making it something very much worth seeing on the big screen."