'Isle of Dogs': Wes Anderson's desolate canine tale of loyalty

I write this sentence with a dog staring at me, wondering when I'll slip her another slice of apple. There are no cats in the house. There never have been. My canine sympathies are clear.

Wes Anderson's latest, "Isle of Dogs," is worth seeing and often very droll, as well as exactingly, rigorously, fastidiously composed, stop-motion frame by frame. The film's blatant anti-cat prejudice - I'm fine with that. We'll get to the questions of cultural appropriation and plurality of perspectives in a minute.

This is writer-director Anderson's second stop-motion animation feature, the first being "Fantastic Mr.