
Variety
The French Dispatch feels less safe than Anderson's earlier work, and that's a good thing.
Full reviewWes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel) writes and directs this collection of three storylines centred on an American newspaper and its journalists based in a fictional post-war French city.
Stars Academy Award winners Frances McDormand, Benicio Del Toro, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz and Adrien Brody alongside Oscar nominees Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson and Willem Dafoe.
LessThe French Dispatch feels less safe than Anderson's earlier work, and that's a good thing.
Full reviewMostly... The French Dispatch is a fun watch because it keeps reinventing itself.
Full reviewAnderson seems far more interested in concocting his dollhouse world than inhabiting it with messy human feelings.
Full reviewA rare Wes Anderson film that flirts with the real world, engaging with politics, sex and violence.
Full reviewAnderson's human connection seems to have short-circuited, so that his irony now bypasses the world and becomes an ironic contemplation of his own work. This is a dead-end, and it's just not interesting.
Full review(The) French Dispatch might be polarising because all of the filmmaker's idiosyncrasies are on full display. And the film sometimes gets lost in them...
Full reviewThe French Dispatch is an elegant ode to good writing, and to those who quietly stand behind the words.
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