Wes Anderson Gets His Overdue Oscar

Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar leads the anthology of four short films based on stories by British literary fantasist Roald Dahl. That’s the episode Netflix successfully put up for the Academy Awards category of Best Animated Short, winning Anderson his belated prize. But Henry Sugar doesn’t represent the best of Anderson’s opulent humanism (The Darjeeling Limited, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, and Asteroid City). Sugar belongs to his recent cynical phase of frenetic overproduction, starting with The Grand Budapest Hotel.