'The Life Aquatic' Remains Wes Anderson's Masterpiece
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Wes Anderson’s “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” was the filmmaker’s first lavish, wildly stylish and extremely divisive work. The momentum of “Rushmore” (1998) and “The Royal Tenenbaums” (2001) allowed Anderson final cut privilege and immediate auteur status, a deserved title, to be sure, but not a guarantee that audiences would embrace all of his eccentric visions. Case in point - “The Life Aquatic” had a wide Christmas day opening and baffled most audiences and critics. Twenty years later,...

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