Isle of Dogs
Isle of Dogs has an unusual bracket signature: modest early, strong late. The 42% overall rate hides a film that tends to peak exactly when the competition does. Stop-motion again, but with teeth: every dog in a near-future Japanese city exiled to an island of rubbish, and a twelve-year-old flying out to find his. Bryan Cranston's Chief is a stray who bites first, and the film trusts its audience with long stretches of untranslated Japanese. It's the Anderson that fans of his darker side defend hardest.
Synopsis
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
From 40% to 75% across the bracket. Isle of Dogs is one of those rare films that improves against harder opposition — the final-round version is a different competitor than the one that started.
Isle of Dogs owns The Grand Budapest Hotel at 71% but The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou flips the script entirely: just 33%.
Isle of Dogs owns Best of Wes Anderson. The Grand Budapest Hotel is the usual final opponent, and at 71% it's not much of a contest.
#5 of 8 for Wes Anderson. Not every film in a filmography can lead — Isle of Dogs competes in the middle of a catalog headed by Fantastic Mr. Fox (70%).
#5 of 8 in Best of Wes Anderson.
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