Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, the list goes on: a stacked source of talent that just feels there to be there. The cast is so big but Anderson forgets why a-list casts work and the character actors are not present here. A star-studded comedy about aliens inexplicably appearing in a small town in the middle of nowhere, set to the structure of a play in which we learn more about the actors playing the parts in what should be a delightfully meta structure, but it just comes off as insufferable. The French Dispatch put me to sleep.Īnd just like his prior work: Asteroid City very nearly does, too. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel, incredible, but the more I watch the more his style starts to test my patience: cold, empty and blank. My stance on Wes Anderson is thus: like most of you, probably, I like the films that I watched by him first. Asteroid City is the kind of film that you’ll either hate or love there’s no middle ground.
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