96% Moonrise Kingdom

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We may look back on Anderson's works as we do on the boxes of Joseph Cornell -- formal troves of frippery, studded with nostalgic private jokes, that lodge inexplicably in the heart. In Moonrise Kingdom, that lodging is already under way.

It makes you nostalgic for the pangs of young love.

What makes it an Anderson movie are the things he adds which mark all his films - the pop-cultural obsessions and excruciatingly detailed set decorations, overarching thematic concerns and little stylistic tics.

I liked this one because of its young performers, the evocative island setting (filmed in Rhode Island), Alexandre Desplat's lovely score and Robert Yeoman's slightly grainy cinematography.

The director's best film since 1998's Rushmore, it has none of the self-conscious smugness of The Life Aquatic or the empty eccentricity of The Royal Tenenbaums.

A gorgeously shot, ingeniously crafted, ?ber-Andersonian bonbon that, even in its most irritatingly whimsical moments, remains an effective deliverer of cinematic pleasure.

A gossamer fable of adolescent romance, played out with the cheekily whimsical, visually delicious style for which Anderson is famous.

Wes Anderson's most sartorially significant film yet.

At once funny and melancholic, whimsical and poignantly true.

One is at times reminded of AE Housman.

Moonrise Kingdom is a delight... stuffed full of the quirky details and gags that are Anderson's trademarks, but it also possesses an emotional undertow that will tug at those viewers in tune with its singular sensibility.

Capturing our inner children

If the deadpan sensibility of the film ultimately leaves it feeling a tad lightweight, that isn't to say that Moonrise Kingdom isn't a funny, witty and well-crafted film.

Typically quirky Wes Anderson dramedy has lots of heart.

A bittersweet and evocative period piece that's both a visual and narrative delight.

No one has an eye or sensibility like Anderson's, but this is a chilly disappointment. The unaffecting kids are meant to be the emotional center, yet the adults steal the film.

I really wanted to like this film. I respect Wes Anderson and his distinctive voice as a writer-director ('Rushmore' is one of my favorite films of the 1990s), but this latest endeavor is so precious and self-aware that it nearly smothers itself.

Those who find the director's work flawed by preciousness, however, may grow impatient well before the movie reaches the 90-minute mark.

Anderson has imagined the '60s on the East Coast as if from an Eddie Bauer catalog and Boys' Life, with the sensibility of The New Yorker.

Like many holiday locations, you wouldn't want to live there, but a mini-break from the norm can be a real tonic.

A sweet, charming and altogether delightful bit of whimsy from writer/director Wes Anderson.

I normally end up liking Wes Anderson's films, but I love this one.

The delightful Moonrise Kingdom marks a career high for offbeat auteur Wes Anderson.

Moonrise Kingdom is bewitching.

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80?s movie Review: April - Manchester's Finest

Now I don?t know if it was too busy getting naked with Madonna, relaxing with Frankie or waking George Michael up before he go-gos and crashes into another Prontaprint, but the 80s movie industry wasn?t very busy in April.

So I started with perpetual man-child Michael J Fox and Bright Lights Big City ? unfortunately not a hidden gem beneath a terrible name, like the folk band titled My Left Foot or the-porn-version-has-the-same-name A Few Good Men. Kiefer Sutherland (this time torturing people with his impossibly large hair) and MJF having parties and family issues alike is pleasant, but it?s easy to see why it?s not a stone cold classic. I blame the lack of teenage werewolves.

Then continuing with the Back to the Future theme, we had Marty McFly?s mum Lea Thompson in Casual Sex? (in fact, everyone did). Surprisingly, the name isn?t the worst thing about this film (I?ve had an inherent mistrust of punctuated movie titles since Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot). It?s either the talking head gender clich?s, the leather jacket worn by ?The Vin Man? or the fact there?s a character called ?The Vin Man?. If you?re expecting Casual Sex? to be provocative, you?ll find more sexiness depicted on standard bus stop knob graffiti.

Poor man?s Labyrinth, Legend screened next, but aside from Tim Curry?s best make up job since he was just a sweet transvestite in Rocky Horror, even Tom Cruise, man-child#2 can?t elevate it above a kid?s movie. Probably because he still can?t get into a PG movie without his parents.

Which led me onto My Beautiful Laundrette. Not being an aficionado of landmark gay cinema, I had to rely on the lure of it being Stephen Frears? (surely there?s a queen/The Queen joke in there?) first global hit. It?s also so early that its star Daniel Day-Lewis was still a cockney (?I tiddly-wink your milkshake!?).

A young Pakistani guy is given a laundrette to run by his wheeler-dealer uncle and despite being racially abused by his mates, finds time to convince old pal Day-Lewis to join him in doing up the laundrette (which as it turns out, is also a euphemism). As they struck up a romance behind the boxes of Daz, despite the subtle play between the cultures, I did snigger at the two closeted gay characters being called Johnny and ?Omo (well, Omar but everyone pronounced it Omo).

Originally made for TV but destined for greater things, it was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay ? and by handling the issues of racial tension, homosexuality and vast unemployment in Thatcher?s London with a darkly comic touch, it probably deserved the nod.

Although with vast civil unrest, it turns out London resembled the alternative 1985?s Hill Valley in BTTF. Some would say it speaks volumes about the two countries. According to the frothy Bright Lights? and Casual Sex?, Americans had cocaine and promiscuity propping up the fun at parties. Whilst our party of choice were the Tories ? even making a tale focused on a laundrette seem dirtier than the crunchy Y-fronts being washed there. So, fancy taking your brain out for a couple of hours? Try the US offerings. Rather take your chances with a dark Brit outlook? Go for Laundrette.

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