Wes Anderson movies are generally considered to be harsh, excitable, and quaint. The Grand Budapest Hotel is a British-German comedy drama film directed by Wes Anderson. The movie, to be released on March 7, is the most mature and visually witty movie of Wes Anderson's to date.

The story revolves around a personal concierge (Ralph Fiennes) who teams up with one of his employees in order to prove his innocence after he was blamed for a murder. The film starts when a teenage girl approaches a statue in a courtyard. The girl is reading a memoir penned by a character only known as "The Author." She starts reading a chapter about a trip to the Grand Budapest Hotel made by him in the late 1960s. He discovers that an Eastern European nation located in the Republic of Zubrowka was destroyed by war and poverty. He also discovers that the mountainside hotel has fallen on hard times.

He meets the owner of the hotel who tells him the story about how he got the hotel and why he isn't willing to close it down. The owner of the hotel confesses that he is not willing to close the hotel because it is the last link to his beloved departed wife. The Author then leaves for South America and never comes back the hotel. Back in the present, the teenage girl completes the chapter about the Grand Budapest and leaves the courtyard.

The characters in the movie are interesting and the cast consists of Ralph Fiennes as M. Gustave H.F., Murray Abraham as Mr. Moustafa, Mathieu Amalric as Serge X., Adrien Brody as Dmitri Desgoffe-und-Taxis, Willem Dafoe as J.G. Jopling, Jeff Goldblum as Deputy Kovacs, Jude Law as Young Writer, Harvey Keitel as Ludwig, Bill Murray as M. Ivan, Edward Norton as Inspector Henckels, Saoirse Ronan as Agatha, Léa Seydoux as Clotilde, Jason Schwartzman as M. Jean, Tilda Swinton as Madame D, Tom Wilkinson as Author, Owen Wilson as M. Chuck, Tony Revolori as Zero Moustafa, and Bob Balaban as M. Martin. Film aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has an 87 percent rating with an average score of 8.2/10 based on reviews from 60 critics.