
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.... (Full plot summary below)
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Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
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| Associated PressDavid GermainWhile the situations sometimes feel forced, Anderson has mounted an elegant production, beautifully filmed and accentuated by pleasant narration from Alec Baldwin and classy storybook transitions. |
| New York PostLou LumenickYou'll laugh, you'll cry -- the year's best movie. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawA mellifluous, labyrinthine thing, indescribably delicious and ambitiously literate. |
| CineScene.comNathaniel RogersLooking at the film is like gazing into the world's most precious and intricate diorama. |
| BBC.comBen FalkFunny, touching, intelligent, strange... well, let's just stop before we run out of superlatives. |
| Mark Reviews MoviesMark DujsikIf the dysfunctional family is a distinctly American pop-culture cornerstone, Anderson has created a small opus of the American family. |
| Movie EyeFrank OchiengIn writer-director Wes Anderson's brilliantly dysfunctional family comedy The Royal Tenenbaums, he delightfully skewers the indelible psychology of an overachieving bunch...engagingly irreverent and deliriously slick |
| Premiere MagazineGlenn KennyTenenbaums ups Rushmore's ante in every way: It's even more stylized, it has a wider-ranging narrative, it deals with a more complex set of emotional concerns. |
| Hollywood.comStacie HouglandDysfunctional-family movies have been done to death but Anderson paints these characters with meticulous originality. |
| eFilmCritic.comCollin SouterTakes a sad song and makes it the best film of 2001. Real genius. |