"[B]eguiling and endearing....[The] new film, in radiant live-action, is very much its own creation..."
Wall Street Journal

"[A] warm and funny fable about kids on the cusp....Here the writer-director's tendency toward the allegorical casts a magical spell with Anderson finding a near perfect balance between the humanism and the surreal that imprints all of his work..."
Los Angeles Times

"MOONRISE KINGDOM breezes along with a beautifully coordinated admixture of droll humor, deadpan and slapstick."
New York Times

"[T]he hilarious and heartfelt MOONRISE KINGDOM is a consistent pleasure. By evoking the joys and terrors of childhood, it reminds us how to be alive."
Rolling Stone

4 stars out of 5 -- "The director of quirky fare with a rabid cult-like following has made a charming, magical and really funny new work about two unique young kids discovering love...it's the director's most accessible movie yet."
Box Office

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The success of MOONRISE KINGDOM depends on its understated gravity....What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that."
Chicago Sun-Times

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Literate, melancholy and magical, MOONRISE KINGDOM is quintessential Wes Anderson..."
USA Today

"MOONRISE KINGDOM, like all of Andersons films, has been made with a master miniature-cabinetmakers care and specificity..."
Movieline

"Anderson hasn't lost his puckishly charming genius for cinema-as-diorama visuals..."
Entertainment Weekly

4 stars out of 5 -- "The watery colours and artful compositions delight in details....The return of a distinct voice in wry, refined and high style."
Total Film

"MOONRISE KINGDOM is very funny, possibly Wes Anderson's funniest film since RUSHMORE..."
Sight and Sound

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