{"id":212274,"date":"2025-06-25T04:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/212274\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T04:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:59:16","slug":"an-all-star-crime-caper-thats-difficult-to-hate-is-now-available-to-watch-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/212274\/","title":{"rendered":"An all-star crime caper that’s “difficult to hate” is now available to watch at home"},"content":{"rendered":"

An all-star crime caper is now available to buy or rent at home after its theatrical run.<\/p>\n

The Phoenician Scheme<\/a> is Wes Anderson<\/a>‘s latest, set in an alternate-world Middle East where an arms dealer and his daughter, a nun, go on the run after being set upon by assassins.<\/p>\n

As always, the esoteric filmmaker has assembled a famous ensemble, with Benicio del Toro, Riz Ahmed, Michael Cera, Scarlett Johansson<\/a>, Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a>, Tom Hanks, Willem Dafoe<\/a>, Jeffrey Wright<\/a>, and Bill Murray to name just a few.<\/p>\n

After releasing last month, the film can now be digitally purchased or rented from outlets such as Prime Video<\/a>, Apple TV<\/a>, and the Microsoft Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, the film costs \u00a315.99 to rent for 48 hours, and \u00a319.99 to purchase. <\/p>\n

The Phoenician Scheme has also been acclaimed by critics, standing a very solid 77% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> from 256 reviews, at the time of writing.<\/p>\n

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Here’s what some of the reviews have said:<\/p>\n

“The Phoenician Scheme, let’s say straight away, is a treat. Unlike its predecessors, it has a story to tell, rather than being an anthology of incidents. It uses all of Anderson’s stylisations but is not primarily about them, as his later films had started to seem.”<\/p>\n

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Universal<\/p>\n

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“It is always entertaining, and delivered with the usual conviction and force but with less of the romantic extravagance than we’ve seen before.”<\/p>\n

“Buoyed by a traditionally spectacular ensemble, The Phoenician Scheme feels unlikely to be anyone’s favorite Wes Anderson flick. Still, it’s so easy to like that it’s equally difficult to hate it.”<\/p>\n

The Phoenician Scheme is available to purchase and rent from various digital retailers now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer at Digital Spy<\/strong>, having worked there since 2016. In his time, he’s covered a host of live events and interviewed celebrities big and small.<\/p>\n

A big fan of TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> both mainstream and obscure, Joe’s main interest is in video gaming. Although particularly a PlayStation gamer, he plays across Xbox, Nintendo and PC\/Steam Deck, and likes to keep tabs on many games he’s not got the time to play.<\/p>\n

Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I’m a Fish (which you really should do).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An all-star crime caper is now available to buy or rent at home after its theatrical run. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[1380,84583,1331,77,3989,1330,3943,84582,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-212274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-7b5fae27-5af1-43c2-91b1-d562f483852b","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hasproduct-true","13":"tag-locale-gb","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-shorttitle-allstar-crime-caper-now-available-to-watch-at-home","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114742242428669668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}