Variety
The French Dispatch feels less safe than Anderson's earlier work, and that's a good thing.
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The French Dispatch
Wes 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.
Less2021Rating: R, Offensive language, nudity, drug use & sexual references108 minsUSA, Germany
ComedyDrama
- Director:
- Wes Anderson ('The Grand Budapest Hotel', 'Fantastic Mr Fox', 'Moonrise Kingdom', 'The Royal Tenenbaums')
- Writer:
- Wes AndersonJason SchwartzmanRoman CoppolaHugo Guinness
- Cast:
- Bill MurrayBenicio Del ToroFrances McDormandJeffrey WrightTimothée ChalametSaoirse RonanElisabeth MossLéa SeydouxEdward NortonWillem DafoeChristoph WaltzTilda SwintonOwen WilsonAdrien Brody
The French Dispatch | Reviews
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IndieWire
Mostly... The French Dispatch is a fun watch because it keeps reinventing itself.
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The Washington Post
Anderson seems far more interested in concocting his dollhouse world than inhabiting it with messy human feelings.
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Empire Magazine
A rare Wes Anderson film that flirts with the real world, engaging with politics, sex and violence.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Anderson'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.
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USA Today
(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...
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Seattle Times
The French Dispatch is an elegant ode to good writing, and to those who quietly stand behind the words.
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