There’s a moment halfway through Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme when Benicio del Toro’s Zsa-Zsa Korda turns to his estranged daughter and gravely declares, "This is the most important project of my lifetime." It's a line meant to underline the sweeping ambition of Korda's globe-spanning infrastructure scheme, but it also feels like Anderson speaking directly to us through his character. His latest film is a deeply stylised, impossibly dense, and at times deliberately opaque offering that aims for both grandeur and introspection. It's packed with ideas, stacked with stars,...