Wonka Review Roundup

T'is the season for festivities, and critics have seemingly decided that the film to pick this Christmas is Paul King's marvellous Wonka.

Reviews dropped last night, and the Rotten Tomatoes critic's score shot up to 80%.

People had doubts about this one, especially as it's coming from such beloved source material, but the dynamic duo of Paul King and Timothée Chalamet have won early audiences over.

See what they had to say below.

Review roundup

• Den of Geek: Despite the marketing's most bashful omissions, Wonka is an honest to Ghirardelli's musical, and a surprisingly old-fashioned one at that. It can even win over Yuletide skeptics.

• Vanity Fair: Wonka is, in fact, a lively, winsome pleasure, a film decidedly aimed at children that nonetheless incorporates some dark matter.

• Daily Telegraph (UK): Like any good chocolatier, King has obsessively focused on texture and flavour. And it's those qualities – tuned to mass-market tastes, yet held in connoisseurish balance – that give his film its irresistible velvety sweetness.

• indieWire: This may not be Paul King's most satisfying film, but even at a scale — or at least a budget — several times larger than that of Paddington 2, the purity of its imagination remains unquestionable.

• Slant Magazine: Paul King again proves himself a masterful engineer of imaginary worlds, and it's the meticulous attention to detail that makes Wonka so captivating.

You can read our Wonka review here.