The defence The Popcorn Loyalist
“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Adventure · Family · Fantasy · 2016
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
Movie details
Alice Through the Looking Glass
“It's time for a little madness.”
2016 Adventure · Family · Fantasy 1h 53m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
6.6 / 10
Community rating
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Alice Through the Looking Glass?
For the defence
The Popcorn Loyalist
“Big screen, big feelings, no apologies.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
Taste neighbourhood
Nearby on the taste map.
TMDB supplies the candidates. CriticWise reorders them by craft, strangeness, prestige, emotion, and pace.
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A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
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Alice in Wonderland
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Descendants: The Rise of Red
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After the Queen of Hearts incites a coup on Auradon, her rebellious daughter Red and Cinderella's perfectionist daughter Chloe join forces and travel back in time to try to undo the traumatic event that set Red's mother down her villainous path.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
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Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
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The Cromwell clan lives in the real world, except for their grandmother who lives in Halloweentown, a place where monsters go to escape reality. But now the son of the Cromwells' old enemy Kalabar has a plan to use the grandmother's book to turn Halloweentown into a grey dreary version of the real world while transforming the denizens of the real world into monsters.
Rise of the Guardians
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When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.
Alice in Wonderland
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The Twits
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When the meanest, nastiest villains pull a trick to take over their town, two brave children team up with a family of magical animals to bring them down.
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The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
James Bobin
Written by
Linda Woolverton
Mia Wasikowska
Alice Kingsleigh
Johnny Depp
Tarrant Hightopp / Mad Hatter
Anne Hathaway
Mirana / White Queen
Helena Bonham Carter
Iracebeth / Red Queen
Sacha Baron Cohen
Time
Matt Lucas
Tweedledee / Tweedledum
Alan Rickman
Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
Court is in session
Put Alice Through the Looking Glass on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Cool Ironist
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.