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From “Bottle Rocket” to “Asteroid City,” we pick our favorite Wes Anderson movies. Just like Royal would with the Tenenbaum children.

Wes Anderson and his level of twee is not for everyone; there are apparently viewers who don’t like their comedies brimming with quirky charm, deadpan absurdity, and perfectly balanced cinematography. For them, Rob Schneider is probably still making movies somewhere. But for the rest of us who do appreciate Anderson’s particularly particular brand of cinema, there’s plenty to love across 30 years of movie-making, including his oddball characters (and their inevitably fraught familial relationships), his winking approach to naming them and the places they inhabit, and his marvelously detailed mise-en-scéne. 

There are few working directors with an idiosyncratic style that is so immediately recognizable and imitated (but never equaled, despite the best efforts of AI). Anderson’s use of symmetrical shots with precise production design, huge casts of unforgettable characters played by a deep bench of big-name actors, and enough retro rock needle drops to fill an hours-long Spotify playlist marks a film as distinctly his. 

For all their preciousness, these movies don’t take themselves too seriously, and never veer away from silliness and whimsy. However, we do take the task of judging them very seriously. Sticking with only the director’s 11 features (apologies to his shorts, including Netflix’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, which won him his first and only Oscar to date), we’ve ranked Wes Anderson’s movies from worst to best. 

His filmography doesn’t contain a truly bad film; some have curdled a bit over the years while others have aged remarkably well. Even those set in a particular era feel timeless thanks to the auteur’s style, which feels vintage but never dated. Which movie about a misfit — or misfits — will reign supreme? 

11. The Darjeeling Limited

Anderson’s films are populated with complicated characters who are sometimes more lovable than likable, but the trio at the heart of The Darjeeling Limited are his more insufferable and least interesting protagonists. Anderson regulars Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman star as three brothers grieving the loss of their father while they take a train across India. They’re looking to find themselves, and the people they encounter often serve as a part of the experience rather than real humans. It isn’t just the three protagonists who treat these minor characters this way; The Darjeeling Limited does so as well. 

Anderson has often displayed a tendency to use either settings or cultures for his own purposes rather than engaging with them on their own merits. That habit might be at its worst in this 2007 comedy, in which he uses the death of an Indian child as a catalyst for the brothers’ growth. I’d mark this as a spoiler, but it’s not really relevant to the plot (and no one is watching Anderson movies for the plot anyway). Some growth happens, but these characters remain mostly selfish and stunted when the film reaches the end of its journey.

Yet amidst all the annoyance, The Darjeeling Limited is one of Anderson’s most vibrantly colorful films, especially in its use of highly pigmented yellow. The director also accurately reflects the dynamics of relationships between brothers in ways that feel authentic. It’s a shame he doesn’t devote the same care to literally any of the Indian characters. 

How to watch: The Darjeeling Limited is available to rent or buy on Prime Video.

10. Bottle Rocket

Anderson’s 1996 feature debut feels right at home with other early works from indie auteurs who launched their careers in the same era — David O. Russell’s Spanking the Monkey, future Anderson co-writer Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming, etc. — with its low-key, almost shaggy aesthetic, oddball characters, and deadpan humor. Yet while this crime comedy was less mannered and precise than future films from Anderson, Bottle Rocket still bears his hallmarks and feels like something only the Texas native could have made. 

An expansion of his 1993 short film of the same name, Bottle Rocket stars Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, and Robert Musgrave as three friends and partners in crime who join a gang led by James Caan’s big boss for a bigger heist. Beyond the presence of the Wilson brothers not playing brothers — including Andrew Wilson in a small role as the brother of Musgrave’s character — the film features other frequently occurring motifs from Anderson’s work, like jangly vintage rock on the soundtrack, handwritten notes on screen, careful shot composition, and thoughtful mise-en-scène (including the requisite wallpaper). But there’s a moment in a burglary scene where Luke Wilson’s Anthony carefully adjusts a toy soldier that feels most like the filmmaker’s later work with its precision and wry humor; it’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it movement, but watching it decades later feels like you’re witnessing the birth of something big, even in something so small. 

How to watch: Bottle Rocket is now streaming on Prime Video.

9. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

After the success of The Royal Tenenbaums a few years prior, Anderson went bigger — but not better — with this 2004 follow-up. Bill Murray’s Steve Zissou doesn’t feel that far removed from Royal Tenenbaum as a bad (maybe) dad who says shit that wasn’t great in 2004 and plays even worse in 2024, and who is estranged from an ex-wife played by Anjelica Huston (in full-on siren mode here). Aquatic explorer Zissou takes his band of misfits (including Willem Dafoe, Noah Taylor, and Seu Jorge) on a mission of revenge after his best friend and best diver, Esteban du Plantier (Seymour Cassel), is eaten by a jaguar shark. Along for the ride are Ned Plimpton (Owen Wilson), a Kentucky pilot who might be Zissou’s son, and Jane Winslett-Richardson (Cate Blanchett), a journalist doing a piece on the famed scientist and documentarian. 

Co-written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach, the plot is a kooky modern-day take on Moby Dick with Zissou’s quest defying all reason, but the film feels rudderless, leaving the audience adrift on pure vibes in a sea of red stocking caps and custom Adidas sneakers. Yet The Life Aquatic with Steve Zizzou still has its charms: the Portuguese covers of David Bowie songs by Jorge, the loving feature-length homage to Jacques Cousteau, and the animated creatures created by Henry Selick that feel just fantastic enough. It’s not peak Anderson, but it’s pure Anderson just the same. 

How to watch: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is available to rent or buy on Prime Video.

8. Rushmore

Anderson’s 1998 sophomore film might be his last one with any semblance to the real world, if a posh private high school can be said to resemble the real world, but Rushmore still features his trademark absurdity. Jason Schwartzman makes his acting debut as Max Fischer, a prototypical Anderson protagonist who is at once precocious and stunted. A scholarship student at his beloved Rushmore Academy, Max gets terrible grades but excels at extracurriculars. He’s a bit of a dilettante, but he soon becomes singularly devoted to winning the affections of Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams), an elementary teacher at the school. 

Rushmore doesn’t just feature the first collaboration between the director and Schwartzman, who he would go on to work with as both an actor and a co-writer for more than two decades. It’s also his inaugural work with Bill Murray, who stars as Herman Blume, Max’s mentor-turned-romantic-rival. Murray’s wry humor and up-for-antics attitude is a perfect fit for the wit of Anderson and Owen Wilson’s script, which is silly and smart and so very Anderson. It’s one of his smaller-scale films, but it still shows sparks of ambition and his inimitable style.

How to watch: Rushmore is available to rent or buy on Prime Video.

7. Isle of Dogs

Anderson isn’t generally known for his deeply stirring narratives, but the emotion felt most while watching this stop-motion comedy is awe (plus some discomfort over how the movie handles its Japanese setting and the white savior narrative with Greta Gerwig’s character, but I digress). Fantastic Mr. Fox, which was released a decade before this movie, was an achievement. While Isle of Dogs is even more technically innovative and visually impressive in its meticulous craft, it’s less charming as a film overall and falls roughly in the middle of the pack of the director’s filmography.

This 2018 comic adventure is set in the fictional Japanese town of Megasaki City (eye roll), whose dogs have all been exiled to Trash Island by the mayor after a canine disease outbreak. Voiced by Koyu Rankin, the mayor’s nephew Atari (another eye roll) embarks on a rescue mission to the garbage dump to save his beloved pup. The story of a lost dog is nothing new in cinema, but Anderson brings his trademark quirk and imagination, making Isle of Dogs feel like something new and worthy of wonder.

Though its main characters are kids and dogs, Isle of Dogs isn’t purely a children’s movie with its message about immigration, sometimes surprisingly dark plot events (and their effects on its vulnerable characters), and accompanying PG-13 rating. It’s less of a good entry point to the director’s work than Fantastic Mr. Fox was, making for the most fitting viewing for devoted fans of either the filmmaker or the medium.

How to watch: Isle of Dogs is now streaming on Disney+.

6. The French Dispatch

Anderson’s cinematic take on The New Yorker roughly follows the format of the revered magazine, featuring a masthead intro, brief travelog, three feature articles (one with a cartoon in the middle of it, naturally), and an obituary, mixing mediums and styles with aplomb. Anderson’s love of the written word has been present throughout his work — whether literally through handwritten notebook pages or through clear literary affection (or is that affectation?) and references — but it’s never been more on display than it is with The French Dispatch. 

Within the framing of a magazine, the bulk of The French Dispatch is composed of a triptych of stories: one about a prisoner artist (Benicio del Toro) and his guard/muse (Léa Seydoux), a second about a French Dispatch journalist (Frances McDormand) and her intimate involvement with her subject (Timothée Chalamet), and finally an unconventional story of gastronomy about a police chef (Steve Park) and a kidnapping plot covered by a James Baldwin-esque writer (Jeffrey Wright). There are so many moments of joy in The French Dispatch, but the middle section sags a bit, somehow inducing a nap despite the presence of McDormand, Chalamet, and Mathieu Amalric. 

The French Dispatch feels like a rejoinder to anyone who has criticized Anderson’s films like Isle of Dogs and The Darjeeling Limited for cultural appropriation and insensitivity. He takes an equally loose, stereotypical approach here, setting the film in Ennui-sur-Blasé, France, a fictional city replete with surface-level observations about a place and its denizens. See? He can do it with white people, too. 

How to watch: The French Dispatch is available to rent or buy on Prime Video.

5. Moonrise Kingdom

Anderson usually crafts films set in the vaguely indefinable present, but with an old-school soundtrack and vintage production design that make his movies feel wonderfully timeless. Yet Moonrise Kingdom is the first movie in his career that actually takes place in the past, and the nostalgic details and wistful approach are perfect for its 1965 setting.

Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward) are tween residents of the island of New Penzance who develop mutual crushes after a brief meeting followed by written correspondence. They decide to run away together — him from his Scout troop and her from her parents (Frances McDormand and Bill Murray) — and they’re pursued by the island citizens, including the local police captain (Bruce Willis), Sam’s fellow Khaki Scouts, their Scout Master (Edward Norton), and a brutal bully (Lucas Hedges), all while a storm bears down on the island. 

Other than Rushmore, Anderson largely makes movies about adults stuck in childhood, so Moonrise Kingdom marks an interesting inversion to that formula. With Sam and Suzy, this 2012 romantic adventure focuses on actual kids who often act more like grown-ups, but it never loses its sense of tenderness and innocence in the wistful story of their young love. 

How to watch: Moonrise Kingdom is available to rent or buy on Prime Video.

4. The Grand Budapest Hotel

A story within a story within a story, set in the fictional Eastern European country of Zubrowka, The Grand Budapest Hotel is simultaneously ambitious and playful in its structure and silly and gravely serious in its tone. This Zubrowkan equivalent of a matryoshka doll spins the tale of a woman reading a 1985 book written by an author (Tom Wilkinson) about a 1968 encounter where the then-younger writer (Jude Law) learns of events in 1932 at the eponymous hotel. 

At the now-fading Grand Budapest, Zero (F. Murray Abraham) recounts his youth as a lobby boy (Tony Revolori) who served under the venerated concierge Monsieur Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes). Gustave got in a spot of trouble when his habit of romancing the hotel’s oldest, richest female guests found him accused of the murder of Madame D. (Tilda Swinton in layers of makeup), setting Zero and his boss off on a series of misadventures with danger arriving from both the authoritarian regime and Madame D.’s family. 

Inspired by the work of Stefan Zweig, this 2014 film has uncommon gravitas for an Anderson movie, as it explores the impacts of the Holocaust on Europe and its various minority populations. However, this tiered confection never feels overly heavy, nor does it make light of the tragedies it references. Anderson ably balances the tone, but Fiennes is a charming standout, even among a typically huge cast that also includes Jeff Goldblum, Ed Norton, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Owen Wilson, and Saoirse Ronan. 

How to watch: The Grand Budapest Hotel is available to rent or buy on Prime Video.

3. Asteroid City

Artifice has always been a hallmark of Anderson’s work, but there are new layers in his most recent feature, from 2023. Asteroid City is a thoroughly postmodern movie set in the Space Age; it’s a film of a TV production of a play, complete with a narrator, fourth-wall breaks, and intentionally unrealistic sets. The plot is often opaque (and not particularly important), but that somehow doesn’t lessen its crater-sized emotional impact. 

The play is about a Junior Stargazer convention set in Asteroid City, during which a number of quirky young scientists and their families — along with a surprise galactic guest — converge on the small, remote town. Asteroid City is notably Anderson’s first movie without Bill Murray in two decades, but Tom Hanks ably steps into the elder statesman role, bringing a warmth that Murray often lacks to his part as a rich grandfather. In addition to Hanks, Asteroid City features a number of Anderson newcomers, including Margot Robbie and Steve Carell, as well as the usual stable of actors: Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Tony Revolori, etc. 

Through all those layers of theatricality and absurdity, Asteroid City ranks with The Royal Tenenbaums as one of Anderson’s most moving films. It’s a profound meditation on how small we are in the universe, yet how truly special each and every life is. Asteroid City reflects on the power of the simple act of staring up at the sky, and how important human connection is in this crazy world. 

How to watch: Asteroid City is now streaming on Prime Video.

2. Fantastic Mr. Fox

The precision and preciousness that Anderson brings to every film feels like a natural fit for stop-motion animation, and he’s rarely been better than in his first full-length foray into the medium. Adapted by Anderson and Noah Baumbach from the Roald Dahl children’s novel of the same name, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a delight, even sillier than most of the filmmaker’s work in the best of ways, which is a perfect match for the source material and its intended audience.

George Clooney lends his voice to the eponymous hero, playing off his on-screen personas of Danny Ocean and Out of Sight‘s Jack Foley as a fox who just wants to complete one last heist, with Mrs. Fox (voiced by Meryl Streep) none the wiser. But instead of jewels or money, Mr. Fox is intent on stealing chickens from the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean (Robin Hurlstone, Hugo Guinness, and Michael Gambon). 

Whether you’re an adult or a child, it’s impossible not to giggle with glee at Anderson’s accomplishments in this 2009 film. It’s marvelously detailed, down to the minute stitches and woven wool of the characters’ clothing. The animals generally behave like humans, even cursing in a wonderfully PG way, until they growl and snarl ferociously as they’re scrapping with each other or scarfing down a meal. Fantastic Mr. Fox is a wildly imaginative wonder that delivers the themes Anderson often returns to — like challenging father-son relationships, tensions between rivals, and the desire to reclaim past glory — but this time, he does it with brilliance for a new, younger audience.

How to watch: Fantastic Mr. Fox is now streaming on Disney+.

1. The Royal Tenenbaums

Anderson’s more recent work is marked by sprawling casts filled with recognizable faces, but The Royal Tenenbaums was his first film that went big on its list of actors to fill out the Tenenbaums and those in their orbit. The introduction of all these people, with narrator Alec Baldwin speaking over The Mutato Muzika Orchestra’s cover of “Hey Jude,” builds the 2001 film’s version of New York City and constructs these characters with such love and care. The Tenenbaum kids — Richie (Luke Wilson), Chas (Ben Stiller), and Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) — are each struggling with adulthood in different ways, but the return of their reprobate father, Royal (a sparky Gene Hackman), brings them all back under the roof of their mother, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), at 111 Archer Avenue.

Written by Anderson and co-star Owen Wilson and set to an all-timer of a soundtrack, The Royal Tenenbaums is the director’s funniest film with marvelously quotable lines, but it’s also among his most moving. Familial relationships feature prominently through a lot of his films, but the most poignant moment in his work is when Stiller’s Chas chokes out, “I’ve had a rough year, Dad,” to Hackman’s Royal. Somewhere in the bowels of the internet, my MySpace quote is still “I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum,” just like neighbor Eli Cash (Owen Wilson). It’s easy to identify with his desire to be a part of this tribe.

How to watch: The Royal Tenenbaums is available to rent or buy on Prime Video.

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Nobody really knows what’s going on with Chelsea. They have an enormous squad of players that don’t seem to really gel with each other, but you can’t say it’s not at least entertaining. We’re all keen to see whether they can make it work and start climbing the Premier League standings.

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Bournemouth vs. Chelsea in the Premier League kicks off at 8 p.m. BST on Sept. 14. This fixture takes place at the Vitality Stadium.

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Fresh from winning another Premier League title last season, Manchester City have started the new campaign very strongly. Brentford are up next for the champions, hoping to be the first team to take a point from Guardiola’s team.

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Manchester City vs. Brentford in the Premier League kicks off at 3 p.m. BST on Sept. 14. This fixture takes place at the Etihad Stadium.

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Fubo offers coverage of all 380 matches of the 2024-25 Premier League season in Canada, but anyone can access this package with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Canada, meaning you can unblock free live streams of the Premier League from anywhere in the world.

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Liverpool have made a strong start to the new Premier League season, but Nottingham Forest will be a difficult test. Forest are unbeaten this season, so won’t go down without a fight at Anfield.

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When is Liverpool vs. Nottingham Forest?

Liverpool vs. Nottingham Forest in the Premier League kicks off at 3 p.m. BST on Sept. 14. This fixture takes place at Anfield Stadium.

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The Premier League is back after a painful international break, with a selection of exciting fixtures that should keep fans entertained all weekend. Everything starts with Southampton vs. Manchester United, as the Red Devils look to bounce back after a very disappointing defeat at the hands of Liverpool.

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Up to eight simultaneous connections

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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.

If you’re reading this, you’re looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game.

Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There’s always a theme linking every solution, along with the “spangram,” a special, word or phrase that sums up that day’s theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you’re feeling stuck or just don’t have 10 or more minutes to figure out today’s puzzle, we’ve got all the NYT Strands hints for today’s puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Elements of Style

These words are available at your nearest department store.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

The answers all relate to non-clothing fashion items.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today’s NYT Strands spangram is veritcal.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today’s spangram is Accessorizing.

NYT Strands word list for September 14

Jewelry 

Glasses

Watch

Belt

Accessorizing

Scarf

Handbag

Looking for other daily online games? Mashable’s Games page has more hints, and if you’re looking for more puzzles, Mashable’s got games now!

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Here’s the answer for “Wordle” #1183 on September 14, as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

Oh hey there! If you’re here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we’re serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today’s answer.

If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for September 14’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

Where did Wordle come from?

Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once. 

Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

What’s the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is the one that speaks to you. But if you prefer to be strategic in your approach, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles used to be available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it. Unfortunately, it has since been taken down, with the website’s creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times.

Is Wordle getting harder?

It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn’t any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle‘s Hard Mode if you’re after more of a challenge, though.

Here’s a subtle hint for today’s Wordle answer:

Covering a wide range of subjects.

Does today’s Wordle answer have a double letter?

There are no letters that appear twice

Today’s Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with…

Today’s Wordle starts with the letter B.

The Wordle answer today is…

Get your last guesses in now, because it’s your final chance to solve today’s Wordle before we reveal the solution.

Drumroll please!

The solution to today’s Wordle is…

BROAD.

Don’t feel down if you didn’t manage to guess it this time. There will be a new Wordle for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we’ll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today’s Strands.

Reporting by Chance Townsend, Caitlin Welsh, Sam Haysom, Amanda Yeo, Shannon Connellan, Cecily Mauran, Mike Pearl, and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.

If you’re looking for more puzzles, Mashable’s got games now! Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.

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Connections is a New York Times word game that’s all about finding the “common threads between words.” How to solve the puzzle.

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that’s captured the public’s attention. The game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for September 14’s Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

What is Connections?

The NYT‘s latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications’ Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there’s only one correct answer. If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

Here’s a hint for today’s Connections categories

Want a hit about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

Yellow: Creating a wine

Green: Things to activate a console or machine

Blue: Common words placed before another

Purple: Types of kings

Here are today’s Connections categories

Need a little extra help? Today’s connections fall into the following categories:

Yellow: Wine Bottle Info

Green: Console Inputs

Blue: Prefixes

Purple: ___King

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Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today’s puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

Drumroll, please!

The solution to today’s Connections #461 is…

What is the answer to Connections today

Wine Bottle Info: GRAPE, REGION, VINTAGE, WINERY

Console Inputs: BUTTON, KNOB, SLIDER, SWITCH

Prefixes: PRO, RETRO, SUB, SUPER

___King: BURGER, CALIFORNIA, LION, PROM

Don’t feel down if you didn’t manage to guess it this time. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we’ll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today’s Strands.

If you’re looking for more puzzles, Mashable’s got games now! Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.

Not the day you’re after? Here’s the solution to yesterday’s Connections.

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In ‘The Killer’s Game’, Dave Bautista and Sofia Boutella have to survive an onslaught of the world’s best assassins, including one played by Terry Crews. So we played ‘Slash or Pass: Assassins’ with them to see who they feel their characters could out-assassin.

In ‘The Killer’s Game’, Dave Bautista and Sofia Boutella have to survive an onslaught of the world’s best assassins, including one played by Terry Crews. So we played ‘Slash or Pass: Assassins’ with them to see who they feel their characters could out-assassin.

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Shuchi Talati’s Sundance hit “Girls Will be Girls” is a masterclass in mother-daughter tension in awkward adolescence. Film review.

Girlhood, in all its pain, wonder, and perplexity, is a complicated business to accurately capture on screen. It’s so confusing some times. Relationships between mothers and daughters during adolescence? Same deal. From Lady Bird to Mermaids, coming-of-age films about girls often explore the awkwardness of early sexual experiences alongside the tense, precarious relationships between girls and their mothers.

The debut feature and Sundance Film Festival hit from Indian writer-director Shuchi Talati, Girls Will Be Girls explores this complex time through understated, intense performances from Preeti Panigrahi and Kani Kusruti, respectfully intimate cinematography and editing, and a minimalist, loaded script. It’s a stunning, poignant film that lends agency and inquisitive empowerment to its young protagonist, whose “no bullshit” philosophy brings a fresh perspective to portrayals of adolescence.

It’s a period of conflict, anxiety, miscommunication, pressure, and misdirected angst. Don’t act like you don’t remember.

What is Girls Will Be Girls about?

At the core of the film is 16-year-old Mira (Panigrahi), a studious, determined girl whose burgeoning exploration of sexual desire and first love is thrown into confusing, infuriating disarray by her mother Anila (Kusruti), whose own adolescence wasn’t as full of such awakenings.

Set in the 1990s, the film introduces Mari as a model student at her conservative boarding school in the Himalayas. She’s head prefect, a stickler for the rules, acing her grades, and pulling up other students on their uniform errors. Teachers even trust her with the school keys. But she’s quite a solitary person, favouring studies over friendship. When Mira develops a crush on 17-year-old classmate Sri (Kesav Binoy Kiron), she’s resolved to follow her physical impulses — importantly, on her terms. However, her mother’s constant presence frustrates her, impeding her yearning for maturity and experience with Sri (and remember, this is the ’90s, so they’ve got no social media to chat after school on, only parental landlines).

But it goes further than pure supervision. Anila’s strange closeness and (let’s be real) flirtation with Sri triggers Mira’s jealousy and unease, driving an awkward, loaded wedge between mother and daughter. With Talati’s simmering script in the hands of the film’s extraordinarily talented leads, director of photography Jih-E Peng uses elegant cinematography to amplify both the tension and tenderness between them.

Preeti Panigrahi and Kani Kusruti are magnificent

Girls Will Be Girls paints an exquisite portrait of complicated mother-daughter mechanics in the teen years, with exceptional performances from Panigrahi and Kusruti. As Mira, Panigrahi imbues her character with confidence, determination, and an unwavering stare. She privately defies societal expectations of teen girls while operating well within their parameters publicly. Meanwhile, Kusruti conceals a dynamic force of a woman within Anila, one protective of her daughter while seemingly mourning a teen awakening of her own.

Despite the main narrative concerning Mira’s coming-of-age, the constant tension between her and Anila proves the heart of the film. Mira covertly attempts to buy time for sexual experimentation with Sri, frustrated by her lack of freedom. Anila, craving attention within her own marriage to Mira’s perpetually absent father, begins to strangely compete with her daughter whenever Sri is around. A subtle and deeply resentful battle of access and maturity is weighed between mother and daughter, in which Anila constantly takes up the space Mira yearns for.

The thing is, both Mira and Anila know exactly what each other are doing. Every time. They don’t directly say what they’re thinking about each other, but anyone who’s had a mother-daughter relationship will know those looks. Their charged interactions, edited to perfection by Amrita David, radiate with annoyance, loaded comments, and fierce glaring, not directly acknowledging their issues but making their disdain or defiance clear. Panigrahi and Kusruti’s performances range from playfulness to suspicion to suppressed rage, all without ever screaming at each other. It’s impeccable, and a different kind of anger than explored in Everything Everywhere All At Once but just as palpable. 

Girls Will Be Girls gently explores early sexual experiences without judgment

Amid this tension over space and maturity, Girls Will Be Girls gives Mira ample time to embrace and investigate her sexual awakening, an awkward, relatable journey performed with bold courage by Panigrahi and Kiron, and sensitively handled by Talati, Peng, and David.

A true academic, Mira is determined to explore her newfound desires with all the scrutiny of an exam to study for. She’s both fascinated by all of it and self-conscious of Sri’s experience. Captured with handheld, intimate close ups and sound design, Mira’s exploration feels non-judgmental. Talati doesn’t seek to either glorify or vilify, letting the camera simply sit on minuscule moments of analysis, closeness, forgiveness, and betrayal.

In a confident, considerate performance from Kiron, Sri channels a maturity beyond his years, unfussed by Anila’s concerns and easily assuaging her. And in a world saturated with teen dramas and coming-of-age films where girls are robbed of their agency, Mira’s confidence and Sri’s respect for her boundaries are incredibly refreshing.

Girls Will Be Girls demonstrates how boys are protected, girls are blamed

Though it’s not the main storyline, one of the persistent realities underlining the film is the double standard of how boys and girls’ behaviour is considered within the school environment, a place which fosters misogynistic actions when it should be a vital base for unlearning them. Talati contrasts the strict conservatism of the boarding school — the left-right-left marching orders over the opening credits, wide shots of students standing to attention in perfect order at assembly — with both the burgeoning sexual tension between teenagers and the rampant harassment girls suffer from their male classmates.

Male students’ abhorrent behaviour is largely allowed to run by the school while female students are blamed — especially for their skirt length. “Be careful with boys,” the girls are instructed by their teacher. “Don’t talk to them more than necessary. You’re getting older, you need to be careful.” Talati wields sound as an important tool here, thanks to sound team Carole Verner, Laure Arto, and Colin Favre-Bulle; boys’ whispering is easily audible in the silent classrooms and halls, with only the sound of a camera snapping unmasking the act of upskirting.

Whe Mira rejects the advances of her classmate, his vengeance is supported not only by his male peers but the school environment itself. Mira is shamed by her teacher as being “inappropriate” for hanging out with Sri. When Mira endures a terrifying experience, she doesn’t call the police or the teachers, she calls Alina. It’s through Mira’s experiences that Girls Will Be Girls shows how vital education institutions are to fighting these systems of oppression. As Rachel Thompson writes for Mashable, “Tackling male violence means fighting misogyny on a societal level. That means educating boys and men about masculinity, gender roles, male entitlement, and their behaviour towards women and girls in all contexts, public or private.”

Ultimately, the film isn’t a lecture on this, but instead uses showing not telling to make it clear. Girls Will Be Girls manages to gently but authentically explore the complexities of girlhood through excellent performances, a minimalist script that trusts its actors, and superb, close cinematography. It’s a tough job, to find unique ways to explore teen sexuality in cinema, but Talati defines a new perspective with a truly mesmerising film.

Girls Will Be Girls hits cinemas in the U.S. Sept. 13 and in the UK and Ireland on Sept. 20.

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