I’ll give you five reasons to watch the upcoming live action adaptation of the beloved 2010 animated film, which will open in US theaters on June 13th.
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The Magnificent Wes Anderson: Why 'The Phoenician Scheme' is my fave since 'Grand Budapest'
At the core of his latest film, Anderson, along with co-writer Roman Coppola and leading man Benicio de Toro, has created a wonderfully entertaining antihero of contradictions: European yet eerily Trumpian, bigger than life yet soft spoken, bearing many passports yet without a fixed address, a self professed diplomat who carries a crate of hand-grenades — just in case they are needed. And more often than not, they are.
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