The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

It’s thrilling to be distracted by really good storytelling. But it’s more thrilling to be provoked, or even altered by it.

I think this is the just the right bite-size amount of Wes Anderson... I kind of feel like shorts are an excellent use of his his style [and] his voice.

Anderson seems to have perfected the art of simultaneously showing and telling – a tinkertoy approach to cinema that can pall over the length of a feature but plays with delightful brio in a short.

Taken as a whole, and the four films should be watched together, it's a deeply significant work for Anderson, and one of the year's best movies, no matter how you parse it.

Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl. What a brilliant, eccentric, complicated relationship that is.

Roald Dahl’s work has always been a salve to children in need, acknowledging the cruelty of the wider world and celebrating inventive defiance. With these short films Wes Anderson shows how that still matters.

The stories themselves are fascinating...

Anderson’s whimsical, storybook approach fits perfectly for this playful adaptation of a 1977 Roald Dahl short story about how a gambler learns to cheat by seeing through cards.

Rather than expanding and becoming richer, Anderson’s method folds in, like origami.

Faith is the operative word here: here's a faithful adaptation that feels of a piece with Anderson's filmography while continuing a new chapter in his body of work that can only be described as a carefully controlled burst of creativity.