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The Grand Budapest Hotel review
A legendary concierge and his lobby boy navigate a stolen painting, a family fortune, and the collapse of Europe. Anderson's funniest and saddest film…
★★★★½ 4.7/5
Wes Anderson
Anderson's films are immediately identifiable by their symmetry, flat staging, and curated production design, but the formalism is frequently mistaken for detachment. His work is organised around grief, family failure, and the collapse of civilised order, and his best films use their visual control as a delivery system for genuine melancholy.
Signature and approach
- Symmetrical composition and flat staging
- Nested narrative structures
- Production design as emotional argument
- Comedy that resolves into melancholy
- 1Films reviewed
- 91.0Average score
- 1969Born
- AmericanNationality
Films by Wes Anderson in our collection
Ordered by release date. Every entry links to the full review.
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Filmography reviewed
Year, genre, runtime and score for each film.
| Film | Year | Genre | Runtime | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Comedy | 99 min | 91 |
Reading Wes Anderson in context
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