Dear Wendy

a GOOD MOVIE AND HAD A mEDIOCRE STORY BUT OTHER tHAN THAT the movie was good. Great acting B overall rating go see it now... Full review

Dear Wendy is far ahead of its time. Many people make movies about guns and their affect on people in a whole. This just took a nasty dump on every last one of them. Whereas the others are all based soley... Full review

Collision of two different worlds: the first - is kids' world of (their own) imagination - it's their (*silly*) games with guns; the second - is world of reality (world of grownups). Kids do not understand where the game ends and... Full review

A top-notch commentary on America's love of guns, power and the need to belong. A product only a true outsider can justly create.... Full review

Dear Wendy" is not rated but would probably receive an R for a few strong scenes of violence (mostly shootings), some vulgar sexual references, and some brief female nudity (as well as some nude artwork). Review continues below Vinterberg is another adherent to von Trier's minimalist "Dogme" filmmaking rules (which eschew special effects and other gimmickry). ... Full Review

And Bell shines in his role as Dick, the narrator of the film and the writer of the letter that begins, "Dear Wendy," which turns out to be his beloved gun. Apparently, he was inspired by the pop group, who made music from 1962-1967, to pen Dear Wendy and the idea is a clever one even if the execution often doesn't work. ... Full Review

Dear Wendy" might have a bizarre sense of locale and idolatry, but the imagination (and mad genius) of the filmmakers is just enough to help swallow their incredibly condescending posturing. Dear Wendy" takes on the gun and religious culture, but takes the argument to Von Trier's favorite land: the extreme. ... Full Review

Dick's, a dainty pearl-handled revolver that he initially mistakes for a toy, is called Wendy, and the story is presented as a letter he is writing to her. Here, the story is laughably incoherent, which would be less bothersome if the movie were not also so unremittingly pretentious. ... Full Review

The problem is that to make that case, Dear Wendy resorts to trite, repetitious narrative and visual metaphors, and overheated symbology. Dear Wendy opens as a kind of epistolary romance, in which our hero/narrator Dick (Jamie Bell) is writing a love letter to the unseen Wendy. ... Full Review

In 2005, my friend and I grabbed day passes to the Toronto International Film Fest and coordinated 25 films that incorporated our varying tastes. Film after film was a bad choice, and we began to feel defeated and tired. ... Full Article

Jamie Bell is the gifted British actor dancer who played the title role in the delightful musical 'Billy Elliott'. And he's all grown up. Now twenty, Bell plays orphaned teen Dick Dandelion in 'Dear Wendy. ... Full Article

In this pseudo-documentary, nerdy filmmaker Caveh Zahedi tells us about -- and restages episodes from -- his 20-year-battle with sex addiction. Actually, it's not much of a battle (he gives in pretty easily) and it's not so dark: indeed, he... ... Full Article

We Americans like to see guns in movies.And we prefer the most violent and bizarre showcasing of guns possible: schoolboys and guns, gang members and guns, aliens and guns, blonde supermodels and guns. ... Full Article

DEAR WENDY is the latest distinctively conceived work from the controversial "brothers" of Dogme 95, Thomas Vinterberg (It's All About Love; Festen) and Lars von Trier (Manderlay; Dogville; Dancer In The Dark). ... Full Article

October 20th, 2005 Madman Lars Von Trier reaches back into his bag of goodies and comes up with "Dear Wendy." A valentine to American gun control contradictions and the conviction of youth, "Wendy" is a corker of a ride, as... ... Full Article