Rushmore
The record for Rushmore is clear: 35% across 86 head-to-head matchups, with no round offering a foothold. It's below average from start to finish. Where the style people mean by "a Wes Anderson film" first shows up whole: Jason Schwartzman's Max Fischer, a fifteen-year-old who runs every club at his prep school and is failing, and Bill Murray as the depressed millionaire who becomes his rival in love. Nineteen ninety-eight, the Faces and Cat Stevens on the soundtrack, and the film a lot of critics still name when asked for the best Anderson.
Synopsis
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.
Below average at every stage. The opening at 38% come closest to competitive, but "closest to competitive" is the ceiling — the bracket doesn't get easier for Rushmore at any point.
Asteroid City is the easy matchup at 80%. The Grand Budapest Hotel is the kryptonite at 12%. The gap between best and worst opponent says a lot about what Rushmore can and can't handle.
Best of Wes Anderson typically ends in the semifinals for Rushmore: trails Moonrise Kingdom 62–38% in round one, loses to The Grand Budapest Hotel (12%) in the semifinals.
Rushmore sits at #6 of Wes Anderson's 8 films. The filmography spans from Fantastic Mr. Fox (70%) down to Asteroid City (21%) — a 49% range that shows how differently voters treat the same director's work.
#6 of 8 in Best of Wes Anderson.
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