Moonrise Kingdom Movie Reviews

Love during adolescence, identifiable. With Wes Anderson behind the camera, Moonrise Kingdom is about love between two troubled adolescents, Suzy and Sam. Their need to run away from the world into the arms of true love might feel over-the-top but their imagination, their ideas and the innocence in their actions will certainly charm the pants off you. Staring through her binoculars Suzy (Kara Hayward) seems lost, alone, lonely

NOBODY creates mild craziness as nicely, pleasantly as Anderson. Nobody creates warm yet melancholic, set-piece homes like him as well. Here in one five-minute sweep of their house, he establishes the Bishops of Summer's End, living on a small island, as comfortably well-off and comfortably aloof from each other. However, this is the 1960s, when it was okay for the head of a scout camp to smoke in front of his wards, for children to wield axes

Moonrise Kingdom' can best be described as a dream you wouldn't want to wake up from. Though the setting may look like it was plucked straight from the pages of an Enid Blyton novel, its subject and handling couldn't be more adult. Magical forces are at work here, making the movie part whimsical and all wonderful. Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward ) are twelve-year-olds who attempt to escape their dreary existences by eloping

Wes Anderson does not make living-breathing films. What he crafts — and I use that word in the artisanal, bespoke sense — are meticulously mounted dioramas, which he then populates with simulacra of living-breathing people. I hate to begin talking about Moonrise Kingdom on what appears a defensive note, but each time I proclaim enormous affection for Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and especially The Darjeeling Limited (has there been a more

There are roughly 171,476 words in current use and 47,156 obsolete words in your average dictionary these days, but there’s only one word that can eloquently express the full genius of Wes Anderson’s style of filmmaking: Weird. Yes, generally the polite way of putting it is by using the euphemism ‘quirky’ or even ‘idiosyncratic’ (if you are writing for expensive magazines), but all his odd little films have pointed us in one direction