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Wes Anderson
May 30, 2025
Adam Nayman
Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme Embraces the Modest Pleasures
It’s also a rollicking not-quite thriller about family, financing, and (broadly) filmmaking itself.
October 20, 2021
MagazineLidija Haas
The French Dispatch Is Wes Anderson’s Most Indulgent Fantasy
Set at an upscale midcentury magazine, the new movie is an ode to print and a slice of escapism.
March 21, 2018
MagazineChristian Lorentzen
Good Boys
The earnest, ironic stylings of Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs”
February 9, 2018
MagazineChristian Lorentzen
Talk Therapy
Alex Ross Perry’s moody portrait of stifled creativity and tense relationships
April 24, 2017
Tim Grierson, Will Leitch
Grierson & Leitch Episode 65: Free Fire, Network, and The Royal Tenenbaums
March 6, 2014
David Thomson
‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Is Wes Anderson At His Worst
October 17, 2013
Marc Tracy
The World Needs More Wes Andersons
June 4, 2012
David Thomson
David Thomson on Films: The Stunted Adulthood of Wes Anderson
May 10, 2005
Christopher Orr
Lifeless Aquatic
January 11, 2005
Christopher Orr
Village Idiocies

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