Wes Anderson constructs his movies with the precision of a master thief plotting an elaborate heist, and thus it’s fitting that he turns his attention to a grand criminal-industrial enterprise with The Phoenician Scheme.

Arriving in theaters nationwide on June 6, the writer/director’s latest gem (co-conceived with Roman Coppola) is a meticulous espionage-y adventure that’s part Mission: Impossible and part dad-daughter drama, all of it filtered through Anderson’s incomparable aesthetic and narrative vision.

With Benicio Del Toro giving a career best-performance as Zsa-zsa Korda, an infamous global wheeler-dealer who’s renowned for surviving plane-crash assassination attempts (the sixth such attack serves as the proceedings’ amusing opener), it’s a rollicking saga of love, loyalty, dupl

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