Wes Anderson returns to the world of stop-motion animation for the first time since 2009’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” with the imaginative dystopian fantasy “Isle of Dogs.” But while his follow-up demonstrates the same technical skill and storytelling inventiveness that made his first foray such a success, some of its aesthetic decisions end up undermining the […]
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Film Review: “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Platformed carefully and hyped heavily, Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” should achieve an impressive box office success. For unclear reasons, his movies usually please the reviewers enormously — his first big production, “Rushmore,” benefited from three major stories in the New York Times on its release, then received the sort of adoration from critics […]
