<em>Wonderstruck</em> Chooses Mess Over Magic
Todd Haynes’s convoluted new film is a disappointing follow-up to his masterpiece <em>Carol</em>.
The plot of , when described, sounds like the most rhapsodic of fables, blending childlike fantasy and New York City nostalgia to tell a story buoyed by swelling music and intricate visuals. The film follows two kids, a girl in the 1920s and a boy in the 1970s, each navigating the American Museum of Natural History by themselves, and each deaf (the girl born that way, the boy after a recent accident). The museum links them together in some mysterious way, and the director Todd Haynes wants to illuminate
