Wes Anderson remembers to put humans in the dollhouses this time

In the 27 years since Wes Anderson made Rushmore, his movies have only become more deliriously decorative and ostentatiously ornamental. Among the things audiences will encounter in Anderson’s new movie, The Phoenician Scheme, are shoeboxes containing business plans, multiple rosaries, assorted assassins or would-be assassins, a diplomatic pouch holding handkerchiefs and other valuables, a fruit box repurposed as a crate of hand grenades, and the inscrutable, vaguely illegal scheme referenced in the title. This list is apt to come across as exhausting in the manner of the litany of clubs and societies run by Max Fischer in Rushmore, including the Calligraphy Club, the Bombardment Society, and, most memorably, the Rushmore Beekeepers. Yet the most rewarding way to view The Phoenician Scheme may be to look

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