I created a stand-alone thread for the film (including the two Hollywood trade reviews), thinking it's more likely to become a contender (one we'll all comment on at some point), and would otherwise get lost in this thread.Sabin wrote:Critics across the board agree that The French Dispatch is a Wes Anderson. Print critics are warmly positive. Twitter crix seem delighted.
Peter Bradshaw gives it four stars/5.https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/j ... r-magazineHis new film, The French Dispatch, long delayed by Covid, has on the strength of the extensively picked-apart trailer, been condemned as more of the same. To which I can only say … sure, yes, more fun, more buoyancy, more elegance, more marvelously eccentric invention, more originality. It might not be at the very zenith of what he can achieve but for sheer moment-by-moment pleasure, and for laughs, this is a treat.It's a Wes Anderson film!
Todd McCarthy likes it fine.https://deadline.com/2021/07/review-the ... 234790664/If Wes Anderson hasn’t already been ordained as the king of twee, he certainly will be with The French Dispatch. There can never have been a film so entirely marked and dominated by preciously perfectionist compositions, arcane detail, meticulous camera moves, ornate décor, historical and design minutiae, styles of typography, precision diction, arch attitude, obsessive attention to cultural artifacts and loyalty to Oscar Wilde’s notion that art needn’t express anything other than itself. This is Anderson in full flower, one that only grows in a rarified altitude. As such, it will provoke the full range of reactions, from the euphoric among pure art devotees to outright rejection by, shall we say, those not on speaking terms with ultra-refined tastes.It's a Wes Anderson film!
Eric Kohn of IndeWire gives it a B+.https://www.indiewire.com/2021/07/the-f ... 234650346/It’s hard to imagine another living filmmaker with a style as instantly recognizable as Wes Anderson, a feat that works against him no matter how expansive his approach. “The French Dispatch” doubles down on it, with a freewheeling triptych of stories that make the case for his appeal by amplifying it.It's a Wes Anderson film
You might want to move these over to there.
