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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 68Paste MagazinePaste MagazineThe doc has its cake and eats it, too, reaffirming Mendes’ vulnerability without putting much of anything on the line.
- 50IndieWireRyan LattanzioIndieWireRyan LattanzioThe pop icon’s stardom is so etched in concrete at this point that he could tell his fans just about anything and they would never stop listening. So it’s a pity that the documentary vehicle that surrounds him isn’t more forthcoming about the man beneath the wife beaters and airtight skinny jeans who sends so many swooning, but surely must, at times, feel lonely late at night like the rest of us.
- “In Wonder” wants so much to be a humanizing portrait, but it doesn’t go deep enough to crack Mendes’s polished love-crooner veneer, nor does it say anything new about fame that hasn’t been said in other pop-star docs of recent years.
- 40VarietyChris WillmanVarietyChris WillmanSinger does find a slight bit of drama to seize on at about the two-thirds point of the film, which, for understandable purposes of having anything at all happen in the movie, he trumps up to the point it becomes nearly comical.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterRobyn BahrThe Hollywood ReporterRobyn BahrSinger hopes to offer the history of Mendes' career, maturation and emotional journey through memory and imagery instead of hard fact, which renders the film feathery and dull. If anything, I wanted less self-discovery and more straight-up musical performance.