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WONKA

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PG | 116 minutes

Director Paul King

Cast Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Olivia Colman, Hugh Grant

Gene Wilder will be, the best Willy Wonka. It doesn’t matter how kookily Johnny Depp played him in 2005’s , and the appealing winsomeness of Timothée Chalamet as the young Willy in this prequel isn’t enough. The man we met in 1971’s is the GOAT. The very idea that someone could top Gene’s genie is almost insulting.

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