The Phoenician Scheme is Wes Anderson’s 13th film as a writer-director. This time, he takes his trademark style to the espionage genre. Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro) is an industrialist, arms dealer, and the richest man in Europe. He had also made many enemies, and after a sixth attempt on his life, Korda sets out […]
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Asteroid City Review
Wes Anderson is a filmmaker known for his signature visual style and whimsical tone. He takes his directional traits to the sci-fi genre with Asteroid City. In 1955 a group of assorted people arrive in a small desert city. This includes war photographer Augie Steenbeck (John Schwartzman) and his 14-year-old son Woodrow (Jake Ryan), famous […]
The French Dispatch Review
Wes Anderson is a subgenre unto himself. From Rushmore to Moonrise Kingdom, the quirky auteur’s films are so uniformly meticulous and bizarre that they could not be mistaken for anyone else’s work. Regardless of the individual movie’s specific genre or plot, Anderson has consistently brought the same style and tone to all his films. His […]