Wonder

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

Wonder lands somewhere between crowd-pleaser and mild critical compromise — audiences embraced it overwhelmingly while critics were more divided, broadly approving of the performances and emotional sincerity but split over whether its warmth tips into manipulation. A recurring fault line was the casting of a non-disabled actor to play Auggie, which a number of reviewers felt contradicted the film's own message of acceptance.