Quintessential end of summer viewing, which is maybe a little on the nose given it takes place over the first week of September, and one of the locations is literally named "Summer's End."

It's a classic Wes Anderson dream where every shot is a beautiful photograph, every character wonderfully cast, every color pops, every line of dialogue carefully written and executed.

The story follows two lonely, othered kids who find the active care they are desperately starved for in each…

A treat. Says loud things so quietly and gently. I found myself fiercely protective of and caring towards Hirayama immediately. It's remarkable to find a character that you are so dissimilar to, and yet feel an intense kindredness with like this one. I want to watch it over and over.

In reading others' interpretations of the film, I saw some comments that criticized Hirayama's self-imposed solitude as a coping mechanism for some hardships in his life, like his estrangement from…