Film Review - The Phoenician Scheme
The usual surplus of insufferable quirk from Wes Anderson, bordering on self-parody, but I like Mia Threapleton
Wes Anderson continues his tiresome streak of insufferable archness without emotional resonance in The Phoenician Scheme. I’ve long since lost patience with this director, whose earlier works with genuine pathos — Rushmore (1998), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), for instance — now feel like d…
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