Florence Pugh as Lib Wright
ON PAPER, The Wonder might seem like your standard period movie — bonnets, hardscrabble lives, Toby Jones with mutton chops. But Disobedience and Gloria Bell director Sebastián Lelio’s latest promises a bold new take on the costume drama. First of all, adapted from Room author Emma Donaghue’s 2016 novel, it has a crackerjack premise. In the 1850s, Lib (Florence Pugh), an English nurse, is summoned to an Irish village to preside over Anna O’Donnell (Kila Lord Cassidy), an 11-year-old girl who has survived without food for four months. Some view it as a medical anomaly, others see the girl as a miracle.