“The Phoenician Scheme” Review

I might have been mistaken in thinking that Asteroid City was most direct film on the nature of existentialism. The Phoenician Scheme becomes even more overt with mortality, to the point of making regular trips to the afterlife and forcing skulls onto tables multiple times. This aspect doesn’t entirely hinder the film, but it does reveal how simplified the themes become in a movie that zips through its tale of spirituality and bureaucracy, more compartmentalized than compelling.

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