Moonrise Kingdom

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson's most completely satisfying film since the one-two of "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums," in part because it's the perfect distillation of both.”

  Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club · 100

• “Rapturous and hilarious.”

  Andrew O'Hehir, Salon · 100

• “Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson's seventh movie, and it's the first since "Rushmore" that works from the opening shot to the final image.”

  Wesley Morris, Boston Globe · 100

• “The formality of Moonrise Kingdom - the orderly structure and dreamlike perfection of it all - is as poetic as any film I've seen this year.”

  Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle · 100

• “The usual complaints and caveats about Anderson - he's precious, his characters have no grounding in the real world - can be made about Moonrise Kingdom, but so what? This is his seventh feature, he has been working with a gang of collaborators in front of the camera and behind, and his worldview gets richer, and more revealing, even as the view from his lens gets smaller, closer, almost two-dimensional in its oddball tableaux.”

  Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer · 100