adamz24's review
4.0
Moonrise Kingdom is my favourite movie of the year (2012 has indeed been a disappointing year for cinema, especially for foreign-language and arthouse releases, though it has given us some killer mainstream releases in the likes of Django Unchained and Skyfall, but that's no knock against Moonrise Kingdom), and may be my second favourite film directed by Wes Anderson, after Rushmore, but the screenplay is likely the third best for a Wes Anderson-directed movie, since The Royal Tenenbaums reads so goddamn well, and much of Moonrise Kingdom's charm comes from the young actors' performances and some of Anderson's most beautiful work as director. It's surely, in any case, much better on paper than The Darjeeling Limited and The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
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