Asteroid City - Reviews

With its dual-layered story, meta commentary and extreme goofiness, Asteroid City is a movie that I feel I’ll (happily) need to see again in order to fully appreciate everything that’s presented...

...it’s a journey to the desert well worth taking.

Wes Anderson’s 1950s sci-fi is an exhilarating triumph of pure style.

Wes Anderson’s 1950s sci-fi is an exhilarating triumph of pure style.

Truly delightful.

A sky-watching romp that contemplates infinity, Asteroid City offers a wry exploration of life’s mysteries and proves that the Anderson touch can hold firm in the face of the great beyond. 

...delivers heady philosophical concepts and exquisite visual mastery...

This is Wes Anderson’s oddest film yet.

...with all the visual flair one would expect from this veteran auteur director and such a large cast of renowned actors. It’s one of the best movies he’s made.

The maestro returns, the patented formula tweaked to blissful perfection in this witty and deeply moving exploration of the tools that we produce to help us see beyond our everyday vision.

...comparable to another great cinematic celebration/interrogation of performance as life, life as performance: Jean Renoir’s “The Golden Coach.” Yeah, it’s that good.

Tilting surprisingly dark – I suspect the film is at least in part about how we process trauma – but also somewhat impenetrable on first watch, it was another startlement when I realized I was crying. I can’t wait to go back.