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'Wonder': Why?

A boy born with a facial disfigurement enters a new school in this low-stakes, superficial "sundae-sweet tale" from the director of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Julia Roberts and Jacob Tremblay star in <em>Wonder</em>.

Life is hard for the Pullmans, the affluent Brooklyn family at the heart of the watchable but underachieving Wonder —or at least that's what this semi-comic weepie sets out to demonstrate. Yet the Pullmans' troubles, which stem from their youngest member's medical condition, turn out to be as superficial as the boy's disability.

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