The Phoenician Scheme
ComedyAdventureCrime
6.524/10
|US
|en
|102 min
Release Date: 2025-05-23
Overview - Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins.
Production Companies
Indian PaintbrushAmerican Empirical PicturesStudio Babelsberg
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
Unlike a few of the more recent Wes Anderson films, I thought this had more of a substantial story to underpin the antics as it follow the quite literally death-defying activities of entrepreneur “Korda” (Benicio del Toro). Now he’s made his squillions somewhat disreputably and has frequently been the target of assassins, so after this latest attempt sees him face down in the desert, he decides it...
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r96sk
9/10
<em>'The Phoenician Scheme'</em> is Wes Anderson being Wes Anderson (complimentary). I loved this! <em>'Fantastic Mr. Fox'</em> and <em>'The French Dispatch'</em> are works of this director that I've enjoyed most, but this 2025 release is on another level for me. It's as amusing as it as stunning, Anderson films are unmistakably Anderson and this one is no different; it has everything you'd exp...
