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    Review: 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar' is Wes Anderson at his sweetest

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Sep 28, 2023 4 minutes
    Benedict Cumberbatch, left, and Ralph Fiennes in the movie“ The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.”.

    Every wonderful story, Wes Anderson surely believes, is the work of a wonderful storyteller — or, at the very least, a storyteller worthy of the viewer's time and the camera's attention. And so it's no surprise that "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar," Anderson's brilliant new adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1977 tale of the same apt title, should open with Dahl himself. Played with thinning hair and a curmudgeonly sniff by Ralph Fiennes, the author sits in his Buckinghamshire writing hut (a fastidiously yellowed re-creation of Dahl's real-life backyard work space), pausing for a moment to tidy up his station before plunging us into a rapid-fire reading of

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