Never before in director Wes Anderson’s storied career has his picture-book aesthetic been more suited to the material than in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, the first in a new quartet of short films based on the work of Roald Dahl and released on Netflix. This isn’t the first time that he has adapted a Dahl story, of course; Anderson directed the excellent existential stop-motion film Fantastic Mr Fox in 2009. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is just as fleet-footed as that foxy movie, a rollicking 40-minute adventure that takes the filmmaker’s inimitable style and gives it the...