Fantastic Mr. Fox

Director: Wes Anderson

2016 / 87min / DCP

Anderson does Dahl—a hand-in-glove fit of sensibilities if ever there was one—for the first time in this charmingly homespun stop-motion production whose menagerie of animal heroes and villains includes the James Hamilton-voiced Phil Mole. Not just Anderson’s first venture into animation, Fantastic Mr. Fox was the closest thing he’d done to date to a pure genre piece—a stylish, taut heist picture, with retired chicken thief Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) fed up with domesticity, deciding to take one last job, and bringing down a world of trouble on his family in the process.

Part of Animal Farm: Moles