The Phoenician Scheme

Directed by Wes Anderson (PG-13)

★★★

Though it's easy to enjoy, The Phoenician Scheme "feels unlikely to be anyone's favorite Wes Anderson flick," said in RogerEbert.com . "One of his flat-out goofiest movies," filled with sight gags and physical humor, it casts a "perfectly deadpan" Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, a hated 1950s European tycoon trying to reconnect with Liesl, his novitiate daughter, as he tries to pull together a legacy-enshrining infrastructure project. Del Toro and Mia Threapleton are terrific in the father-daughter roles, as are many members of the all-star ensemble cast. Yet it's Michael Cera, as Liesl's awkward Swedish tutor, who "walks away with the film." Zsa-zsa's schemes require that he bounce around a fictitious Middle Eastern co

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