The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Texas nativeWes Andersonhas made a name for himself as a novel producer , author , and director whose signature style involves quirky character in vintage duds , spectacular ocean trip , and an accent on the ruse of filmmaking . He met Owen Wilson while in college , and he has often get together with Owen and his comrade Luke ever since .
Anderson has been nominated for a fistful of Academy Awards , and he won a Golden Globe for his 2014 filmThe Grand Budapest Hotel . He continue to make movies that are as full of contrived , denounce circumstance as they are genuine , relatable characters . This juxtaposition makes him one of the most interesting filmmakers in recent tenner . The list displume together Anderson ’s best and Anderson ’s worstmovies , ranked by their scores on IMDb .
Worst: The Royal Tenenbaums (2004) - 7.6
Anderson ’s third feature has a lower evaluation than others , but it ’s still considered a whimsical , moving sept drama that includes memorable performances from its ensemble cast .
Owen Wilson also co - wrote the screenplay , which fag in the lives of the Tenenbaums , whose paterfamilias , Royal , abandoned the family when his children were unseasoned . long time subsequently , with his finance dwindling , he plots an awkward reunion with his estranged kin group . The film stars Gene Hackman , Angelica Huston , Bill Murray , Gwyneth Paltrow , Ben Stiller , Luke Wilson , Owen Wilson , and Danny Glover .
Best: Rushmore (1998) - 7.7
Anderson followedBottle Rocketup with this beloved comedy , which he co - wrote with Owen Wilson . Jason Schwartzman stars as 15 - class - old Max Fisher , a soph at Rushmore Academy who has a hard clock time making friends . He develops a peculiar connection with an older homo , business tycoon Herman Bloom , played byBill Murray .
Their friendship is compromised , though , by their common love for a grade school instructor named Miss Cross . This moving-picture show solidify Anderson ’s status as an up - and - come director , and it plunge Schwartzman ’s career .
Worst: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) - 7.3
Despite inspiring countless Halloween costumes , The Life Aquaticis considered one of Anderson ’s worst films . Co - written with fellow quirky movie manNoah Baumbach , the film follows oceanographer Steve Zissou as he seeks vengeance on the jaguar shark that ate his colleague Esteban .
Bill Murray take on Zissou , equal parts Captain Ahab and Jacques Cousteau , as he leads his crew on an ill - fated dangerous undertaking . The Life Aquatichas an telling supporting cast , including Cate Blanchett , Angelica Huston , and Jeff Goldblum , but it ’s seen by many as too hip for its own goodness . racy characters and relatable emotions are sacrificed for swank and style .
Best: Isle Of Dogs (2018) - 7.9
Wes Anderson ’s 2nd foray into inspire movie making , Isle of Dogswas both critically and theatrically successful . Made with stop - apparent motion applied science , Isle of Dogsis a dystopian click flick about lifespan on an island all dogs are quarantined to after an irruption of dog-iron grippe .
With voice acting from celebrities as diverse as Bryan Cranston , Ken Watanabe , Tilda Swinton , and Harvey Keitel , the movie bridge the col between new hearing in lookup of find - good narrative and older audiences who savour Anderson ’s artistic approach to animated celluloid .
Worst: The Darjeeling Limited (2007) - 7.2
deliberate one of Anderson ’s weaker features , The Darjeeling Limitedfollows three estranged brothers on a wagon train ride through India . The comrade are played by Owen Wilson , Adrien Brody , and Jason Schwartzman .
While the photographic film has a compelling tarradiddle , it tend to bank on many of the same thematic constituent that madeRushmoreandThe Royal Tenenbaumsso loved . Some filmgoers left a screening ofThe Darjeeling Limitedfeeling as if they ’d seen something derivative .
Best: The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - 7.8
Also co - write with Noah Baumbach , The Fantastic Mr. Foxturned out to be much more successful than their first collaborative effort , The Life Aquatic . Anderson ’s first stop apparent movement invigorate feature follows a fox family whose direction of spirit is jeopardize when three local farmers attempt to run them out of their hut .
Entertaining and intelligent , The Fantastic Mr. Foxemploys the voices of George Clooney , Meryl Streep , Bill Murray , Owen Wilson , and Willem Dafoe .
Worst: Bottle Rocket (1996) - 7.0
Despite having one of the low ratings compared to other Wes Anderson films , his debut featureBottle Rocketis technically very fresh by Rotten Tomatoes standards . This idiosyncratic indie drollery is based on a little he made with Owen and Luke Wilson .
Considered by Martin Scorsese to be one of the estimable film of the nineties , Bottle Rockettells the story of a radical of unseasoned Texans try out to make a living for themselves as thief . James Caan diddle the sure-enough con humanity who take the burgeoning robber under his wing .
Best: Moonrise Kingdom (2012) - 7.8
This beautiful , wacky story about first love could only occur in a universe created by Wes Anderson . In this film ’s case , that universe is the made - up New England island New Penzance , where a pair of tiddler become penitentiary - chum , accrue for each other , and plan to run away together .
Yet another ensemble photographic film , Moonrise Kingdomstars everyone from Bruce Willis to Frances McDormand toEdward Norton . The player who play the untried lover , Sam and Suzy , make anyone with a heart swoon over their pure and innocent desire for each other .
Worst: She’s Funny That Way (2015) - 6.1
Anderson produced this motion-picture show , write and train by 60 and seventy cinema image Peter Bogdonavich . It carries the worst military rating of any picture show attached to Anderson ’s name .
This ensemble rom - com star Owen Wilson , Jennifer Aniston , Will Forte , Imogen Poots , and Kathryn Hahn . Wilson plays a Broadway director who hires a call little girl and then open her financial incentive to turn her life around . The picture show ’s strange and heteronormative undertone are never balanced out by even a few good laughs , and the movie never really comes together .
Best: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - 8.1
This sweeping , ensemble historic dramatic play is framed and untangles in a way only Wes Anderson could pull off . The action of the picture show takes spot in the fancied European country Zubrowka during the 1930s , and the social and political turmoil that serve as a setting mirror the events of World War II .
While the cast includes Anderson ’s regular band of collaborators , it also includes performances by Ralph Fiennes , Saoirse Ronan , and Willem Dafoe . Fiennes plays Gustave H. , a celebrated concierge who runs the eponymic hotel settle in the Alps . After he ’s implicated in the death of his long - time mistress , a much older woman played by Tilda Swinton , a mould of characters with nefarious intentions comes after him .
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