The first scene of Moonrise Kingdom, which on May 16 opened the 65th Cannes Film Festival, is a left-to-right tracking shot of some rooms on the upper floor of the Bishop house on the New England ...

The auteur’s calculated quality persists in his latest film as well, but where his past work can come off as chilly and detached, Moonrise Kingdom ... latrines and a tree house perched high ...

You are bound to read, now that his new film Moonrise Kingdom is in theaters, that Wes Anderson’s work is too “quirky,” “twee,” “precious,” “dollhouse-like,” or in some other way ...

“Moonrise Kingdom” opened with some of the best platform ... Last year, both “Midnight in Paris” and “The Tree of Life” parlayed their showings into big opening grosses.

From battery-powered record players to a whimsical tree house far too high up to be safe, there is a definite sense of immersion in this magical world. Yet Moonrise Kingdom does little to distinguish ...