“They say you murdered my mother,” the young would-be nun tells the shady tycoon. “I feel the need to address this.” There’s something about the deadpan delivery and the clear-eyed manner that makes ...

"When you’ve made a lot of movies, you develop your own systems for how to go about them,” says Wes Anderson. He’s in Paris, where he lives much of the time, far from Hollywood, giving one of the ...

"The Phoenician Scheme" (opening Friday throughout Houston), the latest effort from Houstonian Wes Anderson, is of a piece with all of the director's previous films. Whimsical to the point of droll ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 28: Michael Cera attends Focus Features' "The Phoenician Scheme" New York Premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Center on May 28, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/GA/The ...

The film could be most accurately compared to “Tenenbaums” in its precise focus on one family unit, but it also contains all the usual trappings of his later-period output. It’s an espionage tale set ...

Benicio del Toro, Scarlett Johansson, Mia Threapleton, Bryan Cranston, Michael Cera, and director Wes Anderson clue us in on ‘The Phoenician Scheme.’ Accompanied by administrative assistant Bjørn ...

The first scene in The Phoenician Scheme, the latest from director Wes Anderson, depicts a 1950s-era plane targeted by sabotage. Shrapnel chops a passenger in half — the upper part of his body sails ...

Just like “The French Dispatch” and “Asteroid City,” Wes Anderson’s newest feature, “The Phoenician Scheme,” is packed to the brim. The film follows the sly international businessman, Zsa-zsa Korda ...

“If something gets in your way, flatten it.” - Anatole ‘Zsa-Zsa’ Korda in ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Every director has a distinct visual style (the good ones do, at least), but I don’t think there’s any ...

Wes Anderson’s got a shtick. And that’s okay. Anderson’s been making movies for almost 30 years now, and he’s become one of those directors whose style is instantly recognizable. You can look at any ...