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New Wes Anderson film is branded 'insufferably self-indulgent' and 'bafflingly incoherent' despite its all-star cast
The Cannes Film Festival closes this weekend and, unusually, two of the films that had the glitziest premieres there have already reached UK cinema screens.
That remarkable cast also includes Michael Cera, Rupert Friend, Riz Ahmed, Willem Dafoe and F Murray Abraham and they all plainly have an absolute whale of a time as Korda whizzes round the world trying to bond with his daughter, finding backers for his dubious project, and confounding assassins. There is one truly spectacular extended stunt, which sees Hunt clinging to the wings of a bi-plane in the clouds above South Africa, but far too much of Christopher McQuarrie’s picture gets bogged down in ponderous self-importance, when it should just be tongue-in-cheek escapism. It benefits greatly from John Krasinski’s gently, engagingly facetious lead performance as Luke, an art thief, squabbling endlessly with his sister Charlotte (Natalie Portman), a museum curator.
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