This is a film full of confectionary flourishes, but it centres around grief, and in its peculiar manner it takes on the pains of existence in a beautifully melancholic way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Colourful and imaginative Wes Anderson whimsy.

| Jun 24, 2024

The film is, for the most part, a delight. I would never miss a Wes Anderson movie, and I encourage anyone looking for something offbeat and original to go and see Asteroid City.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2023

As usual, I marvelled at the richly furnished nature of Anderson’s imagination, but I couldn’t help looking back on earlier, simpler times in his career.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 10, 2023

For all of [ASTEROID CITY'S] artists – including Anderson, of course – the only way to deal with the chaos and uncertainty is to "just keep telling the story."

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 28, 2023

As ever, the mannered speech and meticulous framing lend a certain unreality to the proceedings — to say nothing of the brightly saturated image — but it's hardly style for style's sake.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2023

A great return to form for Wes Anderson... This feels like his best movie since Moonrise Kingdom.

| Jun 28, 2023

I'm sorry, but these things have gotten so twee that I can't stand it.

| Jun 28, 2023

Like all Wes Anderson movies, it is enigmatic, artificial, infuriatingly self-indulgent and irrevocably pointless.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 27, 2023

It's all very cute but not much else, as the story remains locked inside Anderson's dollhouse and is inaccessible to all but his most ardent fans.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 27, 2023

Fans will doubtless be dazzled by its meticulous imitation-of-life-in-miniature visual aesthetic, yet I swithered between whimsical amusement, mild curiosity and outright irritation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 27, 2023

Wes Anderson’s icy, affected style infects a parade of A-listers...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 23, 2023

Asteroid City, the latest from Wes Anderson, is a true achievement from one of America’s most unique cinematic voices.

| Jun 23, 2023

Viewers are drawn into a setting with a bunch of people we wouldn't usually meet and, like them, we emerge intrigued and a little baffled by what we've learned about each other.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 2023

Late in the film, much of the cast breaks the fourth wall to chant “you can’t wake up if you don’t fall asleep.” Falling asleep won’t be a problem if you go see “Asteroid City.”

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 23, 2023

Funny, but often quietly devastating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2023

The problem with Wes Anderson films, it now occurs to me, is that they are Wes Anderson films, and my patience has run out.

| Jun 22, 2023

I flatly delighted in everything set in Asteroid City.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 22, 2023

Asteroid City is a mid-life story to the bones. Anderson is 54, with a seven-year-old child, and the movie is suffused with bittersweet truths immune to framing devices.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2023

While the concept sometimes seems unnecessarily complicated, I’m growing fonder of “Asteroid City” the more I think of it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2023