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- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar2023
- The Grand Budapest Hotel2014
- The French Dispatch2021
- Fantastic Mr. Fox2009
- Sing2016
- Isle of Dogs2018
- The Royal Tenenbaums2001
- Moonrise Kingdom2012
- Rushmore1999
The Darjeeling Limited2007- The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou2004
- Bottle Rocket1996
- The Squid and the Whale2005
- She's Funny That Way2015
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- Castello Cavalcanti2013
- Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou2004
3 days ago · A comprehensive guide to the films of the quirky and stylish director, from Bottle Rocket to The French Dispatch. See how critics rated his movies, from Moonrise Kingdom to The Grand Budapest Hotel, and find out his best and worst works.
Jun 22, 2023 · A freelance film critic ranks Wes Anderson's 11 films from worst to best, with insights into his style, themes, and influences. See how The French Dispatch, Isle of Dogs, and Asteroid City fare in the list.
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- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) No, the Academy doesn’t always pick up on filmmakers at the right time, and neither does the public. But the first Wes Anderson film to get big-time Oscar love (and to top $50 million at the box office) is easily his best, a towering, crammed, exquisitely frosted celebration gateau with a big, aching heart at its centre.
- Rushmore (1998) A quantum leap forward “Bottle Rocket,” in which that film’s manic energy found a more refined storytelling confidence, this tender coming-of-age tale gave the director his most enduring (and endearing) onscreen alter ego in Max Fischer, a bright, brashly big-thinking and socially inept high school misfit negotiating an awkward first crush on a kindly schoolteacher.
- Isle of Dogs (2018) Anderson’s second foray into animation may well be his flat-out weirdest film to date. A dystopian every-dog-has-his-day adventure in which a band of abandoned mutts team up to subvert a corrupt Japanese dictatorship, it sounds frenetic in synopsis form, but turns out to be a cool, sparse hangout movie, the languid pace of which gives viewers more time to appreciate the delirious intricacy of its world-building, visual in-jokery and stark sonic experimentation of Alexandre Desplat’s score.
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Anderson’s first film to reach for “major” status mostly hit the mark, thanks in large part to a performance of wry gravitas and winking sadness by Gene Hackman that we now tend to think of as the retired veteran’s screen swansong.
- The Darjeeling Limited
- Bottle Rocket
- Isle of Dogs
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- The French Dispatch
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Moonrise Kingdom
- Asteroid City
- Rushmore
- The Royal Tenenbaums
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This movie just doesn’t really work despite having the verve of other Anderson movies. It’s unmistakably the work of the director, but it also tends to showcase his worst tendencies like reducing minorities down to stereotypes, obvious visual symbolism (the guys casting off their baggage is cringeworthy), and characters whose idiosyncrasies veer in...
Bottle Rocket is as full of promise and all the rough edges you’d expect from an auteur like Anderson on his debut feature. The pacing is jittery, but the style and gentle confidence we’ve come to expect from Anderson’s pictures is there. What would probably be a top-notch premise in later Anderson movie—a heist film with inept criminals (something...
The director’s return to stop-motion animation is a lot of fun, and it also signals that he’s willing to become more ambitious with his themes. Yes, there’s a bit of “bad dad” in there in terms of the relationship between Mayor Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura) and his nephew Atari (Koyu Rankin), but the focus is really on the political subtext, particula...
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is Anderson coasting along and doing quite well, but also starting to run out of steam. On its own merits, there’s nothing particularly wrong with The Life Aquatic. It’s got some of the most gorgeous imagery in Anderson’s filmography (particularly the underwater scenes), Bill Murray shows yet again why he’s one of...
This is an odd one in Anderson's filmography. He essentially made three short films tied together through a simple framing device and a love of long-form journalism typically presented in The New Yorker. On the one hand, you have to appreciate Anderson following his muse, and there aren't many other directors who would attempt to make a film about ...
Anderson basically revitalized his career with this daring stop-motion picture. It was both his first time doing an entire feature in stop-motion, and it was his first time adapting someone else’s work, in this case, the Roald Dahl book the same name. But it worked wonders, imbuing the charm of Anderson’s work with the quality of Dahl’s book. The m...
While Anderson has never shied away from love stories before, here he wears his heart on his sleeve by showing the first love between two outcasts. It’s a bit of a roadtrip movie as Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward) traverse the wild trying to make their way in the world, but it’s so sweet that the story moves along effortlessly. Like Ande...
Eleven films in, Wes Anderson is still able to surprise. Asteroid City, with its Inception-like narrative device, allows Anderson to comment on storytelling in general and his own, questioning whether it all means anything, or if that even matters at all. Anderson does this through an extremely funny comedy about an alien landing that often manages...
This movie has always worked, but now it kind of works thanks most of all to Jason Schwartman’s performance. On paper, Max Fischer should be repulsive. He’s self-centered, needy, and stalks poor Mrs. Cross (Olivia Williams), turning what should be a mild crush into full-blown warfare with his friend-cum-rival Mr. Blume (Bill Murray). But because Sc...
The top two slots came very close to swapping places, and ask me on another day, and they could be different. The Royal Tenenbaums is arguably Anderson’s masterpiece, featuring a knockout comic performance from Gene Hackman as the patriarch of a family of fallen geniuses. In some ways, Tenenbaums is the movie that all other Anderson movies are meas...
A comprehensive list of the filmmaker's feature films, from his debut Bottle Rocket to his latest Asteroid City. Find out which ones made the top five and which ones fell flat, and why.
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) If there's one thing that defines the films of Wes Anderson above all else, it's not immaculately composed shots, whimsical costumes, dry one-liners, or any of the other elements so easily and often parodied.
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) The Grand Budapest Hotel is the full culmination of Anderson's filmmaking prowess, and it just barely missed out on EW's No. 1 spot.
- Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Many of Anderson's familiar quirks run through his gorgeous seventh feature, but nowhere else has he deployed them to such tender effect.
- Rushmore (1998) Rushmore is rather like one of Anderson's signature shots: Everything is in its right place, and no element is wasted. Every moment helps propel the sharp coming-of-age story forward or reveals something about one of its three central characters: 15-year-old high school impresario Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman); the first-grade teacher he attempts to woo, Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams); and Herman Blume (Bill Murray, in his first and best performance for Anderson), the depressed steel magnate in whom Max finds a kindred spirit, and who forms the third point of this bizarre love triangle.
Jun 23, 2023 · We rank every Wes Anderson movie from worst to best, from 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' to his latest, 'Asteroid City.'.
A public list of 10 titles by luke-eberhardt that ranks Wes Anderson's best films according to IMDb ratings and personal opinion. The list includes Isle of Dogs, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Rushmore, Fantastic Mr. Fox and more.
