Wes Anderson’s 12th movie is now playing. Here’s what you need to know about how to watch The Phoenician Scheme.

Wes Anderson’s latest movie lacks a compelling, comprehensible storyline, or characters viewers would care about. The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson’s latest movie, which opens Thursday in theaters ...

The Phoenician Scheme does not disappoint on this front. It’s a thrill to see longtime collaborators like Bill Murray and Willem Dafoe pop up in a black-and-white series of heavenly visions.

The Phoenician Scheme marks the third collaboration between Wes Anderson and Focus Features after Asteroid City and 2012's Moonrise Kingdom, both of which saw similar release strategies around the ...

The Phoenician Scheme follows a businessman trying to get a world-changing project off the ground. Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro) has survived multiple attempts on his life.

Wes Anderson Delights Cannes as ‘Phoenician Scheme’ Lands 6.5-Minute Standing Ovation, Leading Lady Mia Threapleton Overcome With Tears By Tatiana Siegel, Zack Sharf Getty Images ...

Still, Anderson’s sheer creative style and typical ability to entertain keeps “The Phoenician Scheme” from ever feeling stale. An uninspired Wes Anderson movie is still more inspired than almost any ...

The Phoenician Scheme is a reconciliation story, and so Liesl reluctantly goes along with Korda's harebrained plan, hoping she can do some good along the way. But it won't be easy.

Wes Anderson has always been fascinated by dysfunctional families. He’s come back to the subject again and again — most profoundly, perhaps, in his early triumph “The Royal Tenenbaums” — and “The ...

Even by those standards, his latest film, “The Phoenician Scheme”, about a wealthy 1950s businessman trying to drum up financial support for a risky project overhauling the infrastructure of ...

Maybe “The Phoenician Scheme” is Anderson’s way of saying that stealing something beautiful in the name of “innovation” comes at a great cost, not just to the original artist but to the ...

News ‘Phoenician Scheme’ is as Wes Anderson as a Wes Anderson film can be Published: Jun. 05, 2025, 6:00 a.m.