The stories themselves are fascinating...

| Original Score: B | Jul 3, 2024

Anderson’s whimsical, storybook approach fits perfectly for this playful adaptation of a 1977 Roald Dahl short story about how a gambler learns to cheat by seeing through cards.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 4, 2024

Rather than expanding and becoming richer, Anderson’s method folds in, like origami.

| Mar 22, 2024

Faith is the operative word here: here's a faithful adaptation that feels of a piece with Anderson's filmography while continuing a new chapter in his body of work that can only be described as a carefully controlled burst of creativity.

| Mar 11, 2024

There was something so marvelous in seeing this actor in four roles, each of which he nailed, in these excellent films that did not get the recognition they deserved.

| Mar 8, 2024

Quirky and fabulous.

| Feb 5, 2024

For fans of Dahl or the director, this is unmissable.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 27, 2023

It's a fun film, kept short, light and beguiling.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 10, 2023

An adaptation of a Ronald Dahl story about changing your life and doing the impossible.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 5, 2023

Sugar embarks on a wonderful adventure, traveling the world, using his abilities for the benefit of others, not for himself. This is the kind of movie we need right now, in world where destructive selfishness and xenophobia are running rampant.

| Original Score: A | Nov 17, 2023

...a wittily verbose master class on the way voice can be employed in fiction.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 2, 2023

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is a fascinating experiment in narration and storytelling.

| Original Score: A | Oct 25, 2023

The story-telling here is beautiful.

| Oct 23, 2023

The longest of [Anderson's Dahl shorts] collection is also by far its richest.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 22, 2023

Wes Anderson's inventive, precisely calibrated cinematic contrivance works - making this enigmatic anthology enchanting viewing.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 17, 2023

The result is exhilarating to watch, with Anderson's witty filmmaking sitting perfectly alongside Dahl's darkly provocative narratives.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2023

It’s thrilling to be distracted by really good storytelling. But it’s more thrilling to be provoked, or even altered by it.

| Oct 16, 2023

I think this is the just the right bite-size amount of Wes Anderson... I kind of feel like shorts are an excellent use of his his style [and] his voice.

| Oct 14, 2023

Anderson seems to have perfected the art of simultaneously showing and telling – a tinkertoy approach to cinema that can pall over the length of a feature but plays with delightful brio in a short.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2023

A confounding mix of admirable skill and disconcerting ideas carries over from author Roald Dahl’s short stories into a series of mini films directed by Wes Anderson.

| Oct 12, 2023