If Anderson does sometimes lean too far into his own highly-constructed vision, The French Dispatch is at its best when fragments of honest-to-goodness, imperfect life shine through his perfect compositions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2024

The film is a tribute to a world in possible extinction, the written press. The publications of The French Dispatch, divide the narrative mainly into three stories, who corresponds to a section of the magazine, turning it into a kind of anthology.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Aug 18, 2024

The film has an incredible cast and intricately, terrifically detailed production design that doesn’t feel real, but is practical and utilized in delightful ways. It’s a sensational fantasy.

| Jul 3, 2024

While perhaps The French Dispatch is not Anderson’s most free-flowing film, it is an amalgamation of everything Anderson has put to film to date, drawing on his love of cartoons, newspapers and French culture (in particular cinema).

| Aug 8, 2023

Like the very best of Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch is large and contains multitudes.

| Jul 28, 2023

DELIGHTFUL in every sense of the way. I typically don’t like Anthology stories all too much but this one surprised me. Anderson developed three interesting & well polished stories that brought about a unique feeling that always comes from his movies

| Jul 26, 2023

The French Dispatch is arguably Wes Anderson’s most ambitious film, definitely his most frenetic, and possibly the most alienating to all but the most devoted Wes Anderson fans.

| Jul 25, 2023

Unfortunately, the cliche criticism "style over substance" fits this picture too well.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 25, 2023

At times overwhelming in scope, but never unwelcome, French Dispatch is what the audience expects from Anderson, but it doesn’t go far beyond that. It's a perfectly curated dollhouse in a candy-coated wonderland. There are worse ways to spend your time

| Jul 25, 2023

It’s a tender, vastly underrated title in Anderson’s filmography, one that should grow even more in esteem as the years go on.

| Jun 28, 2023

After watching his tenth feature film, The French Dispatch, I am 100% confident Wes Anderson was raised in a household with parents that performed a traveling festival of living pictures on weekends.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2022

The French Dispatch is the film equivalent of a Wes Anderson amusement park, captivating audiences with color, chaos, and countless curious characters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

If you’re one of those viewers who can only handle Wes Anderson in small doses, then his new film “The French Dispatch” probably isn’t for you.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2022

The French Dispatch is 2/3 of a great movie with a long slog in its middle

| Jul 21, 2022

Feels like slipping not only into Anderson's head but his heart, and more so than any other feature he's made.

| Jul 8, 2022

A great homage to the written word... the words transcend to the screen in the Wes Anderson Universe. Now, was [the film] spectacular? I'm sorry to say it was not. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 29, 2022

Far from the aesthetic pretensions that are taken to the paroxysm, its love letter to journalism seems to me as flat and wrinkled as a piece of newsprint thrown into the garbage can. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 12, 2022

A visual masterpiece bursting at the seams with talent both on and off the screen, "The French Dispatch" is a film by a director working at the absolute height of his powers.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 31, 2022

THE FRENCH DISPATCH is Wes Anderson at his best, most charming and masterful version. A wonderfully funny, romantic and melancholic feast for the senses and a great cast on top.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 25, 2022

An artistic & set design showcase that serves as a good diversion to amuse oneself when the story isnt particularly engaging. Overall it's an amusing movie with fun, quirky bits, but with little emotional resonance in the disjointed stories.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2022