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Where the Wild Things Are

There's one in all of us.

2009 · 1h 41m · PG Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Directed by Spike Jonze

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Overview

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

Top critics, in their words

All reviews
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh

'Where the Wild Things Are' stands out for its unusually potent evocation of the timbre of childhood imagining, with its combination of the outre and the banal, grand schemes jumbled up with delicate feelings and the urge to smash things up.

Ben Walters, Time Out
Fresh

[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.

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Rotten

Wild Things, you do not make my heart sing.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh

Intellectually interesting, visually arresting and filled with invention, there's just one crucial thing Where the Wild Things Are is missing: wildness.

Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh

Spike Jonze, we salute you.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

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