The French Dispatch

"[It] is a beguiling curio, and one that no other filmmaker could have created (...) Every moment is graced by Anderson’s love for the written word and the oddball characters who dedicate their professional lives to it" 

"The unconventional project succeeds in delivering that very particular hodgepodge pleasure of reading a well-curated issue from cover to cover." 

"Fans of the director will find all the usual surface pleasures of his work fastidiously in place (...) But I smiled more than I laughed and, if I’m being honest, I sighed more than I smiled" 

"This charming sketchbook of stories about American expatriates in France delivers a welcome salute to storytelling as a way to make sense of the world" 

"Wes Anderson dazzles with a whimsical new missive of wit & short story delights (...) The craft is, even by his exceptional standards, exceptional" 

"It’s best, maybe, to think of 'The French Dispatch' as a series of exquisite miniatures – amusing, meticulously designed and impeccably executed, but maybe not adding up to much more than the sum of their parts" 

"The filmmaker has fashioned a fantastic and fantastical adjacent realm here like no other in filmdom, much less the real world, and for some people it’s a place they might care to visit time and again, even if Anderson himself is the only full-time resident".