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- 2023
- PG
- Netflix
- 37 m
- 2023
- PG
- Netflix
- 37 m
Summary This short anthology film adapts four of the stories in the Roald Dahl collection "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More." The main story follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a stolen book.
Directed By: Wes Anderson
Written By: Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson
- 2023
- PG
- Netflix
- 37 m
- 2023
- PG
- Netflix
- 37 m
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
7.1
Summary This short anthology film adapts four of the stories in the Roald Dahl collection "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More." The main story follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a stolen book.
Directed By: Wes Anderson
Written By: Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
11% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
84
89% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
11% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
[Anderson’s] movies have always proposed — sometimes ingeniously, sometimes exhaustingly, always sincerely — that we might benefit from looking at the world from a fresh vantage. And so it is with The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, in which a revolutionary new way of seeing holds the key to an altogether deeper transformation.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is a choreographed dance of an experience — one that could have easily felt like a run-on sentence. However, Anderson is skilled enough as a filmmaker to make sure to pace things out with a deliberate and sure hand, utilizing both long takes and clever edits to make 37 minutes fly by like 15.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 User Ratings
7.1
69% Positive
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
17% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
14% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 User Ratings
7.1
69% Positive
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
17% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
14% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
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The movie’s hectic (albeit very precise) swirl of dialogue creates a background against which the idea of slowing down and directing all your attention towards one thing feels like a genuine rebuke of the world. It’s a simple and obvious enough conceit, but Anderson and his cast have such fun with it that they render it fresh and original.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar grants Dahl’s work a pop-out book feel in its theatrical storytelling.
As ever with Anderson, the design is meticulous. Some can find this style cloying, but it suits this glorified short perfectly, never outstaying its welcome.
Neither twee nor saccharine, Anderson’s aesthetic tends to mirror the auras and oddball personalities of his films. In a work suffused with stupefying mysteries, the strange visions Henry Sugar teems with echo its drifters’ wide-eyed wonder as well as their creator’s. It’s an infectious feeling.
Unfortunately, its 39 minutes unfold in such motor-mouthed haste, it feels like a dad belting through a bedtime story while the football’s on downstairs.
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Decent but inconsequential Anderson fare that is very measured and simple. Performances, sets, and staging all good per Anderson's usual outputs.
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