The question going into Where The Wild Things Are is, can childlike wonderment be sustained for an entire film? Can Spike Jonze, who has never made a bad movie, take Maurice Sendak's rough-edged, slim ...

Where the Wild Things Are is the first feature film directed by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) in seven years.It is also quite possibly his most satisfying to date. Jonze and co ...

It may not be for children, but it's the most perceptive film about childhood in ages. Near the end of Maurice Sendak’s classic Where the Wild Things Are, as young protagonist Max is abandoning ...

Where the Wild Things Are may not be a great film for children (or, at least, most children). But it is something rarer still: a great, and unsparing, film about childhood. I'll eat you up, I love ...

The film isn’t too explicit on that last point. But its recognition that Where the Wild Things Are has always been a kind of psychodrama — and its subsequent embrace of that aspect of the book ...

Where the wild things aren't Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers turn Maurice Sendak's woolly kids' book into a shoe-gazing exercise. By Stephanie Zacharek. Published October 16, 2009 7:07AM (EDT) ...

Where the Wild Things Are: 50 Years Later When Maurice Sendak was looking for inspiration for the wild things that would inhabit his now-classic book, he found it right in his own extended family ...

One of the most beloved illustrated children’s books of all time, Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, has delighted readers since 1963. It sold over 19 million copies and has several ...

Through February 17, 2025, “Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak,” spotlights the iconic 1963 children’s book written and illustrated by Sendak, “Where the Wild Things Are.” ...