The last few Wes Anderson movies I’ve watched weren’t exactly what I expected when I started this marathon. The first ones I saw completely bewitched me, so I assumed it would keep feeling that way. But obviously I started with his most popular films, so expecting that level every time was probably a bit naive. Recently his films have started to feel very similar to each other. Different themes, different plots, but structurally they almost move the same way. Sometimes it feels like if you swapped a few scenes between them, it wouldn’t even be that noticeable. It’s still visually gorgeous and unmistakably Anderson, but the formula is starting to show more than before. I still enjoy the style, the dry dialogue, and the strange characters. I just wish the emotional impact hit the same way those first films did.

The last few Wes Anderson movies I’ve watched weren’t exactly what I expected when I started this marathon. The first ones I saw completely bewitched me, so I assumed it would keep feeling that way. But obviously I started with his most popular films, so expecting that level every time was probably a bit naive. Recently his films have started to feel very similar to each other. Different themes, different plots, but structurally they almost move the same way. Sometimes it feels like if you swapped a few scenes between them, it wouldn’t even be that noticeable. It’s still visually gorgeous and unmistakably Anderson, but the formula is starting to show more than before. I still enjoy the style, the dry dialogue, and the strange characters. I just wish the emotional impact hit the same way those first films did.

I love you, WA. I didn’t know that about me til now.

I feel that the viewers completely missed out on the substance of The French Dispatch and disregarded it as WA’s “more visual works”. However, this is true journalism fashioned into cinema. 

Arthur Howitzer Jr.: Try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose.

I love you, WA. I didn’t know that about me til now.

I feel that the viewers completely missed out on the substance of The French Dispatch and disregarded it as WA’s “more visual works”. However, this is true journalism fashioned into cinema. 

Arthur Howitzer Jr.: Try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose.

all i want is to be someone’s simone

all i want is to be someone’s simone

i tried to watch it when it first came out, but honestly it confused me a lot because of the difficult words they use, words i didn’t really understand. now, though, i was able to understand everything.

it’s incredibly beautiful visually, which is not surprising coming from the great wes anderson, and, in the end, this movie feels like a warm hug.

(also, timothée was hot af here like i got WET, btw)

criterion challenge 2026

i tried to watch it when it first came out, but honestly it confused me a lot because of the difficult words they use, words i didn’t really understand. now, though, i was able to understand everything.

it’s incredibly beautiful visually, which is not surprising coming from the great wes anderson, and, in the end, this movie feels like a warm hug.

(also, timothée was hot af here like i got WET, btw)

criterion challenge 2026

Another Wes Anderson masterpiece.

This is my sixth Wes Anderson, and This may have been his second best (after fantastic Mr fox ofc).

Incredible cast , acting and cinematography.
Wes Anderson being Wes Anderson.

Another Wes Anderson masterpiece.

This is my sixth Wes Anderson, and This may have been his second best (after fantastic Mr fox ofc).

Incredible cast , acting and cinematography.
Wes Anderson being Wes Anderson.