The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: if short films are hard, and they are, Wes Anderson makes it look easy in this adaptation of a Roald Dahl short story. It’s true that, at roughly 40 minutes, this is a lengthy short, but it is over before one knows it, as it’s very engaging and entertaining from the get-go. It tells the story of a gambler who can see through objects in a multi-nested narrative. Wes Anderson has made quite a few films recently with that device, but (it seems) this story has it natively. Director of Photography Robert Yeoman and production designer Adam Stockhausen truly surpassed themselves here: the camera, the actors, and the set itself move and transform in very ingenious ways. Editors Barney Pilling and Andrew Weisblum’s work keeps that precision alive and flowing. The cast is small (Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley, and Richard Ayoade) and they are all doing double duty, reading the wonderful text beautifully and, as importantly, reacting to it beautifully.