Wonder: A wonderful film
Cast: Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Mandy Patinkin, Daveed Diggs Rated : 8/10 Propelling the virtue of kindness in this fast growing unkind world was never so emotionally packed and yet full of positives as Wonder is. Thanks not so much to established superstar Julia Roberts or the eternally sweet Owen Wilson but to the kid packed in believable prosthetics to, well, look like a deformed monster as his insensitive classmates call him, that makes you fall in with this Christmas-y family drama with a message. Jacob Tremblay, or Auggie as we know him in the film, is born with a genetic flaw so intense that even after 29 surgeries of his face, he looks barely human. So, he hides behind his astronaut helmet and is completely traumatised when his mom forces him to attend school. Tremblay holds forth with such season histrionics that Auggie and his plight seeps into your heart and tear ducts. At the same time, his quiet perseverance, resignati...