Uneven ‘Wonderland’ reflects hope, despair
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
Elle Fanning is wondrous in Phoebe in Wonderland.
But the movie is an uneven, unfocused amalgamation of ideas and moods that is at times deeply moving nonetheless.
It emerges partly a realistic character study of a troubled child, partly a treatise about the tyranny of conformity over imagination and partly a hallucinatory fantasy. [...]












