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Todd Haynes has been in the zone for quite some time now, creating a remarkable streak of films that establish glorious illusions, and then burrow deeper for the real, messy deal. Wonderstruck, the directorโ€™s first movie for a younger audience, feels like an anomaly in other, less intriguing waysโ€”including an atypically slack narrative and an occasional case of the cutes. But then the third act kicks in, and everything gets terrific.