The Phoenician Scheme

critic Reviews

, 79% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • A caper made with all the intricacy of a Rube Goldberg machine, The Phoenician Scheme doesn't deviate from Wes Anderson's increasingly ornate style but delivers the formula with mannered delicacy.
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    Kimberley JonesAustin Chronicle
    More charitably, The Phoenician Scheme is a palate cleanser – a lovely lark, a spirits lifter.
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    Ann HornadayWashington Post
    At its fleeting best — in its meditation on the transactional and the transcendent — this one feels like it’s reaching for something more than surface charm.
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    Michael PhillipsChicago Tribune
    A beautiful mixed bag, let’s say, all told.
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    Max WeissBaltimore Magazine
    I was thoroughly entertained and left a bit cold.
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    Coleman SpildeSalon.com
    The resulting product is just that: a product, with all of the matte pastel appeal of Anderson’s oeuvre, yet little of its memorable charm.
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    Justin ChangThe New Yorker
    The result is more digestible, though also less moving, than Anderson’s recent Asteroid City, but it does have a stealth emotional weapon in Threapleton’s Liesl, who exudes the intelligence and self-possession of a young Anna Karina.
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    Aglaia BerluttiEl estímulo
    
“The Phoenician Scheme” is a mix of genres - adventure, espionage and family melodrama - assembled with surprising maturity. [Full Review in Spanish]
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    Paul McGuire GrimesPaul's Trip to the Movies
    The Phoenician Scheme is a welcome mental escape to a fantasy land far removed from today’s messy headlines.
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    Peter MartinDallasFilmNow.com
    More decidedly and broadly comic, while retaining his insistence upon design perfection in the costuming and production details, bolstered by a great lead performance by Benicio Del Toro and a splendid introduction to Mia Threapleton.
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    Andrew WyattThe Take-Up
    The sweet, sincere story of The Phoenician Scheme centers on the thawing relationship between a distant but freshly conciliatory father and his reluctant adult child. The plot, however, is pure globe-trotting zaniness.
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