The 100 Best British Films
Read Empire's listing of the best British films.
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Read Empire's listing of the best British films.
The original 1971 “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” may have been a delicious dream, lined with trees of gumballs and fields of lollipops. But never has there been a more cautionary tale about t...
The original 1971 “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” may have been a delicious dream, lined with trees of gumballs and fields of lollipops. But never has there been a more cautionary tale about the danger of too much of a good thing. Magical as that Roald Dahl-scripted film was,…
"Wonka," the latest attempt to revisit Dahl's masterwork, bears no such danger. It's going more for the taste of an Everlasting Gobstopper — an ingenious confection that piles flavor on top of flavor. Tasty though that can be, you miss the daring of Dahl in the more wanly whimsical "Wonka."
Tasty as that can be, you miss the dark daring of Roald Dahl in the wanly whimsical “Wonka," writes Associated Press Film Writer Jake Coyle.