Yesterday I saw Wes Anderson’s best work by far — his five minute ad for American Express and the Tribeca Film Festival. He also stars in it and shows remarkable comic timing, something you wouldn’t guess he had from watching him guest host the Charlie Rose Show. Those of us who found Team Zissou to be good but not great may be delighted to discover that it looks as if Anderson may have stumbled across his true medium. This brilliant short film also has the best use of a banana in a non-sexual, non-slip-on-peel, non fake-telephone way.
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Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
He is the host of ENGAGE: The Official Star Trek Podcast, a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and challenges you to a game of backgammon.