Many of those films are good, but not many of them are excellent.
Once in a blue moon (no pun intended), a truly excellent film is made - a film where everything coalesces perfectly. Emotions resonate, solid plot, characters have depth and likability, a stunning score, etc etc etc. Moonrise Kingdom is that film.
If you aren't reading this on your iPhone in a theater waiting for this film to start, you're in the wrong place. Go now. I'm serious. You're missing out.
In 1965, a pair of twelve-year-old misfits, one AWOL Khaki Scout - Sam Shakusky - and one very sad, unique girl - Suzy Bishop - flee from their lives and "families" to be together on an idyllic New England island. This prompts a local search party led by a local police captain, a Khaki Scout Master and Suzy's parents Walt and Laura.
I've read numerous reviews and I'm not sure that I can say more eloquent things than I have read critics so, so allow me to list a few here.
"Briskly paced and jam-packed with visual gags, "Moonrise Kingdom" is a family-movie heartwarmer like no other. Watching it is like shuffling through a shoebox of fading photos and silly mementos. It's shot on 16-millimeter stock that gives the images a warm, buttery Kodachrome nostalgia perfectly in key with the film's anachronistic humor." -- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A sweetly kooky ode to the intensity of young love. The movie balances broad comedy with occasionally surreal quirk, while still holding the emotional center. Although they don't know each other particularly well, Sam and Suzy find an escape in their union. They willfully lose themselves in a fantasy of being grown up in a world without grownups." -- Mike McGranaghan, The Aisle Seat
"Moonrise Kingdom represents a sort of non-magical Neverland -- that momentous instant when the world can seem so small and a naive crush can feel all-consuming." -- Peter Debruge, Variety
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