This list was first published in 2018. But we tend to follow Wes Anderson anywhere. Since 2018, we’ve updated to include the filmmaker’s cinematic travels to France , Asteroid City , and, in his latest, Phoenicia.

Ranking the films of Wes Anderson feels like a fool’s game, because he’s an auteur’s auteur, with a sensibility so rigorously defined and articulated that you’re either inclined to embrace it fully or reject it completely. He doesn’t do failed experiments or gun-for-hire studio projects or one-offs in a minor key. And though his commercial fortunes have waxed and waned, there’s no evidence that he’s ever cared to fit into the marketplace — or even would know how to do so if he could.

His debut feature, Bottle Rocket , could be called a blueprint of things to

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