"Moonrise Kingdom''

If you love Wes Anderson, you'll love this: The best of what he can do is vibrantly on display. The screenplay, which he co-wrote with Roman Coppola, has resulted in his sweetest and most sincere live-action movie since the one that remains his best, 1998's "Rushmore.'' The contradiction inherent to all of Anderson's films the juxtaposition of the meticulous artificiality of the settings and the passionately wistful emotions that are longing to burst free is at its most effective in a while in this tale of first love.

By AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire.

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