The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Benedict Cumberbach and Ralph Fiennes in “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.” IMDB photo Wes Anderson has done it again. Last summer he snuck the wiggy sci-fi comedy “Asteroid City” onto movie screens moments before everyone caught Berbieheimer fever. In a sly way, “Asteroid City” was a combination of the two films that were destined to rewrite box-office history. Like “Oppenheimer,” it offered its own version of America's dangerous faith in technology to combat the Cold War paranoia of the '50s. And like “Barbie,” it hid its worrisome themes in pastel plastic wrapping. Of course, being a Wes Anderson creation, it felt like it could have just as easily been a fable or fairy tale imagined by a child. Anderson's new “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” was, in fact, imagined by Roald Dahl. Ralph Fiennes stands in for the author in an all-male cast also featuring Benedict Cumberbach, Dov Petal and Sir Ben Kingsley, enjoying a comically light-hearted final chapter in an act