Wendy | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

A new take on Peter Pan that actually works, delivering all the visual richness you'd hope for from the film-maker behind Beasts Of The Southern Wild.

While by no means perfect, Wendy ... has originality, folklore, and old-school Americana to recommend it.

Wendy is undoubtedly a well-intentioned attempt at re-dressing a classic story, but the narrative and performances often keep this version from taking flight.

Though the film starts off as a cliché-ridden redemption story, it gets more interesting as Smith quietly drifts into the background and his subjects' lives come into narrative focus.

I found myself pulled along, not only by Zeitlin's tugging showmanship, but the ache he manages to create around childhood as an enchanted space.