Wes Anderson’s ode to the beauty and weirdness of family opens years after the early brilliance of the three Tenenbaum kids has faded, and they are living again with their mother. Their estranged patriarch Royal (the late Gene Hackman) left when they were young but wants back in. And he’s not above lying about his impending death (or is he?) to do it. The cast is stellar, with Danny Glover, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, and Alec Baldwin in supporting roles. This is probably the last great Gene Hackman picture, a brilliant coda to a brilliant career. He is all the things that he could be on screen — irascible, irrational, wry, profane, wise, cheap, dishonest, profound — often all within the same scene. Even if you’ve seen it, it’s worth catching here just to see those amazing formalist Anderson mises en scène on the big screen again. — Craig Holden
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