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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 04 Sep 2021

Dispatch often feels like the filmmaker in concentrate form, both his best and worst instincts on extravagant display…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Jul 2021

Bursting at the seams with hand-crafted visual delights and eccentric performances from a stacked ensemble entirely attuned to the writer-director’s…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 13 Jul 2021

The movie is a gas. It moves with, well, dispatch, clattering along in its own eccentric way…

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By James Mottram (656) for Total Film (3,532) on 13 Jul 2021

Another work that could really only come from Anderson’s relentless imagination: exquisite detail, eclectic storylines, superb cast…

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By Nicholas Barber (220) for BBC (137) on 13 Jul 2021

His craftsmanship is so overwhelming that unless you're already allergic to his tics and trademarks, you should get a buzz from the film's…

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By Phil De Semlyen (265) for Time Out (7,510) on 13 Jul 2021

Much easier to admire and appreciate than it is to fall head over heels for, The French Dispatch has Wes Anderson in full megamix mode as he…

Review of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 13 Jul 2021

The film—structured as an issue of a New Yorker-esque magazine—is fussy and ornately detailed and difficult to grasp…

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By Jason Gorber (520) for Slashfilm (971) on 12 Jul 2021

The French Dispatch is a rocket ship ride to your cinematic soul, meshing word, action and vision in one glorious bon-bon that’s both sweet…

Review of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Jul 2021

In the past, the director has been accused of making overly contrived dollhouse movies, and while he repeats many of his favorite tricks —…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 12 Jul 2021

Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch feels like four films in one, and contains enough ideas for at least another six…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Jul 2021

A work of such unparalleled Andersonian wit, that at times the sheer level of detail – mobile, static, graphic and typographic – that bedecked…

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By David Katz (41) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 12 Jul 2021

It’s a real giddy rush of a film, perhaps not as fundamentally moving or sensitive at his top-drawer work, but taking his micromanagement-heavy…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 12 Jul 2021

The result is an endearing and liberated explosion of Andersonian aesthetics that doesn’t always cohere into a satisfying package, but never…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 12 Jul 2021

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…

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By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 12 Jul 2021

The result is hugely impressive and awfully scattershot, a wry piece of art that is always entertaining but also so excruciatingly detailed…

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By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jul 2021

Wes Anderson’s film is an often fascinating, wondrous exercise in complex narration and visual composition…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 12 Jul 2021

For all its exquisite construction, though, The French Dispatch doesn’t have much of the sneaky sentimental undercurrent that makes Anderson’s…

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