The French Dispatch

"The French Dispatch feels less safe than Anderson's earlier work, and that's a good thing."

"For sheer moment-by-moment pleasure, and for laughs, this is a treat."

"A beguiling curio, and one that no other filmmaker could have created."

"Mostly... The French Dispatch is a fun watch because it keeps reinventing itself."

"A richly detailed tribute to the power of storytelling."

"A meticulously-crafted love letter to the art of magazine journalism."

"Anderson seems far more interested in concocting his dollhouse world than inhabiting it with messy human feelings."

"A rare Wes Anderson film that flirts with the real world, engaging with politics, sex and violence."

"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."

"(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..."

"The French Dispatch is an elegant ode to good writing, and to those who quietly stand behind the words."