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Where The Wild Things Are
Yearning for escape and adventure, Max runs away from home and sails to an island filled with creatures that take him in as their king.
19 June 1984, New York City, New York, USA
15 January 1989, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1 August 1960, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
15 July 1961, Longview, Texas, USA
22 November 1967, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
October 16, 2009
Director Spike Jonze gets that Max's subsequent journey to the far-off island of the wild things is nothing less than an odyssey into his mind.
October 16, 2009
Intellectually interesting, visually arresting and filled with invention, there's just one crucial thing Where the Wild Things Are is missing: wildness.
September 24, 2012
Jonze has created a world in which even "wild things" can be full of personality and fun to be around.
January 27, 2014
Does leave a lingering impression--but more due to the nagging feeling that it never quite connects than to Jonze actually meeting his grandiose thematic ambitions.
March 05, 2014
Unnecessarily gloomy and emotionally convoluted, Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers' script for Where the Wild Things Are is a melancholy adaptation of the one-two punch that is the heavily illustrated, scantly written book by Maurice Sendak.
October 16, 2009
[Jonze has] achieved with the cinematic medium what Sendak did with words and pictures: He's grasped something true and terrifying about love at its most unconditional and voracious.
August 28, 2013
Spike Jonze adapted a book with less than 200 words into a 90-minute feature and it's simply wonderful.
October 16, 2009
Wild Things, you do not make my heart sing.
October 16, 2009
Spike Jonze, we salute you.
December 11, 2009
'Where the Wild Things Are' stands out for its unusually potent evocation of the timbre of childhood imagining, with its combination of the outré and the banal, grand schemes jumbled up with delicate feelings and the urge to smash things up.
October 05, 2016
It's gorgeous but slow in parts.