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Movie ID: 745
RT slug: the_french_dispatch
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_french_dispatch
Release year: 2021
Runtime: 108 mins
Wide release date: 2021-10-29
Limited release date: 2021-10-22
Festival premiere date: 2021-07-12
Streaming release date: —
Tomatometer final: 75%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Directors: Wes Anderson
Writers: Wes Anderson
Producers: Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales, Wes Anderson
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-14 17:45:55
Updated: 2026-06-14 17:45:55
The staff of an American magazine's French outpost prepares a final issue built around stories of art, politics, food and criminal intrigue.
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Canonical reviews: 321
Canonical fresh: 241
Canonical rotten: 80
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 75%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-14 17:19:43
Snapshot Tomatometer: 75%
Snapshot review count: 321
Snapshot fresh count: 241
Snapshot rotten count: 80
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
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| 169397 | Leigh Singer | Sight & Sound | Fresh | — | 2026-05-14T22:22:09Z | 2026-05-14 22:22:09 | Poignant moments like this feel like Anderson is evoking a deeper, more personal, even contemporary resonance than just a pastiche tribute to great journalists of the past. |
| 169398 | Charlotte Simmons | The Treatment (Substack) | Fresh | — | 2026-02-22T17:15:19Z | 2026-02-22 17:15:19 | Sazerac’s segment is shorter because it need only deliver the thesis statement: the Western union of aggrandization and destruction. |
| 169399 | Ryan Swen | Taipei Mansions | Fresh | — | 2025-09-05T18:46:25Z | 2025-09-05 18:46:25 | More than any of his other films, this meanders and places odd, unexpected emphases on scenes that act more as illustration or elaborations. |
| 169400 | Christina Newland | iNews.co.uk | Fresh | 4/5 | 2024-09-19T21:53:27Z | 2024-09-19 21:53:27 | 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. |
| 169401 | Denise Pieniazek | Puesta en Escena (AR) | Fresh | 7.5/10 | 2024-08-18T22:55:46Z | 2024-08-18 22:55:46 | 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. |
| 169402 | Zach Youngs | InSession Film | Fresh | — | 2024-07-03T01:29:28Z | 2024-07-03 01:29:28 | 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. |
| 169403 | Christopher Connor | The Film Magazine | Fresh | — | 2023-08-08T17:50:26Z | 2023-08-08 17:50:26 | 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). |
| 169404 | Greg Carlson | Vague Visages | Fresh | — | 2023-07-28T19:42:13Z | 2023-07-28 19:42:13 | Like the very best of Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch is large and contains multitudes. |
| 169405 | Zach Pope | Zach Pope Reviews | Fresh | — | 2023-07-26T19:51:01Z | 2023-07-26 19:51:01 | 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 |
| 169406 | Paul Kanieski | KSQD Community Radio | Fresh | — | 2023-07-25T23:38:18Z | 2023-07-25 23:38:18 | 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. |
| 169407 | Manuel São Bento | MSB Reviews (Ghost.io) | Rotten | C+ | 2023-07-25T21:33:02Z | 2023-07-25 21:33:02 | Unfortunately, the cliche criticism "style over substance" fits this picture too well. |
| 169408 | Tina Kakadelis | Beyond the Cinerama Dome | Rotten | — | 2023-07-25T02:29:15Z | 2023-07-25 02:29:15 | 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 |
| 169409 | M.N. Miller | Ready Steady Cut | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-10-21T19:37:51Z | 2022-10-21 19:37:51 | 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. |
| 169410 | Zoë Rose Bryant | Loud and Clear Reviews | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-01T07:37:55Z | 2022-09-01 07:37:55 | The French Dispatch is the film equivalent of a Wes Anderson amusement park, captivating audiences with color, chaos, and countless curious characters. |
| 169411 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-08-16T23:19:13Z | 2022-08-16 23:19:13 | 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. |
| 169412 | Scott Phillips | The Screen Scene | Fresh | — | 2022-07-21T19:52:17Z | 2022-07-21 19:52:17 | The French Dispatch is 2/3 of a great movie with a long slog in its middle |
| 169413 | Sarah Ward | Concrete Playground | Fresh | — | 2022-07-08T08:39:45Z | 2022-07-08 08:39:45 | Feels like slipping not only into Anderson's head but his heart, and more so than any other feature he's made. |
| 169414 | Erick Estrada | Cinegarage | Fresh | — | 2022-06-29T19:51:16Z | 2022-06-29 19:51:16 | 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] |
| 169415 | Yasser Medina | Cinefilia | Rotten | 4/10 | 2022-06-12T10:56:24Z | 2022-06-12 10:56:24 | 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] |
| 169416 | Hunter Friesen | Next Best Picture | Fresh | 8/10 | 2022-05-31T16:59:51Z | 2022-05-31 16:59:51 | 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. |
| 169417 | Jimmy Cage | Jimmy Cage Movie Reviews (YouTube) | Fresh | 8/10 | 2022-04-25T13:27:54Z | 2022-04-25 13:27:54 | 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. |
| 169418 | Ruth Maramis | FlixChatter Film Blog | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-02-28T05:18:02Z | 2022-02-28 05:18:02 | 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. |
| 169419 | David Gonzalez | The Cinematic Reel | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-02-18T15:04:46Z | 2022-02-18 15:04:46 | Even with its faults, The French Dispatch is the most Wes Anderson film of all time. Suppose youre already a fan of his work like I am. In that case, this film will satisfy your wishes. |
| 169420 | Victoria Luxford | Small Screen | Fresh | 9/10 | 2022-02-17T15:05:33Z | 2022-02-17 15:05:33 | Unlikely to turn Anderson haters into advocates, but it is a humble and affectionate ode to writers that opened up his world. |
| 169421 | Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2022-02-12T05:30:24Z | 2022-02-12 05:30:24 | Beautifully crafted but more concerned with style than substance |
| 169422 | Jeff Nelson | Showbiz Cheat Sheet | Rotten | — | 2022-02-12T03:14:18Z | 2022-02-12 03:14:18 | The French Dispatch is Anderson throwing in everything but the kitchen sink in his love letter to journalism. Anderson's quirkiness gets in its own way, resulting in a serious lack of emotional impact. |
| 169423 | Carson Timar | Clapper | Rotten | — | 2022-02-12T01:23:40Z | 2022-02-12 01:23:40 | While every story within The French Dispatch might have at least 1 line of note, the rest is filler. Though a clear technical achievement, the film never solidifies into anything more than an experiment of narrative and structure. |
| 169424 | Kate Robertson | The Post NZ | Fresh | — | 2022-02-12T00:11:30Z | 2022-02-12 00:11:30 | It’s within these sub-plots that we see inside the worlds of a kooky cycling reporter, a tortured artist and a young revolutionist, among others. It’s filled with quirks, is fast-paced and very fun to watch. |
| 169425 | Rob Gonsalves | Rob's Movie Vault | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-02-10T18:56:23Z | 2022-02-10 18:56:23 | It’s all very cleverly worked out. The problem is a pit that Anderson has been edging towards for a few movies now, and in The French Dispatch he topples right into it -- there are just too damn many characters. |
| 169426 | John Beifuss | Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-02-03T21:46:32Z | 2022-02-03 21:46:32 | The lapidary, peripatetic creativity which includes animation, multiple frame ratios, and many digital effects illuminates rather than obscures a hopeful but not nave message about the agonizing joy of making art. |
| 169427 | Cole Smithey | ColeSmithey.com | Rotten | D- | 2022-01-23T19:22:10Z | 2022-01-23 19:22:10 | On-the-spectrum filmic trilogy is a boring, self-indulgent fiasco. Utter bullshit. |
| 169428 | Ruben Peralta Rigaud | Cocalecas | Fresh | — | 2022-01-19T01:20:37Z | 2022-01-19 01:20:37 | An enchanting homage... and worth seeing, but not consistently exciting and will be forgotten soon after leaving the theater. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 169429 | A.S. Hamrah | The Baffler | Fresh | — | 2022-01-18T20:01:20Z | 2022-01-18 20:01:20 | Brody and Swinton are at their best in this beautiful segment, with its gray prison walls in black-and-white and the explosive color of its Seydoux-inspired bas-reliefs. It's the best thing Anderson has done in a long time... |
| 169430 | Casey Chong | Casey's Movie Mania | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-01-06T13:40:21Z | 2022-01-06 13:40:21 | [Wes] Anderson's overall decision of vignette-style storytelling lacks narrative coherence, where certain scenes tend to be either sluggish or too detached. But one thing is for sure, he never lost his touch when comes to his signature visual style. |
| 169431 | Pablo Villaça | Cinema em Cena | Fresh | 5/5 | 2021-12-31T21:50:19Z | 2021-12-31 21:50:19 | It is a shame that perhaps Anderson's gorgeous signature style will distract part of the audience to the point that they miss the humanity and beauty in his stories. [Full review in Portuguese] |
| 169432 | Rene Sanchez | Cine Sin Fronteras | Fresh | 3/4 | 2021-12-30T22:21:11Z | 2021-12-30 22:21:11 | Staying true to his charming and peculiar style, Anderson's anthology has its heart in the right place. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 169433 | Jane Freebury | Jane Freebury | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-29T23:11:00Z | 2021-12-29 23:11:00 | It stops and starts then starts anew again, which will put some offside, yet it's a brilliantly detailed mash-up from a director with a unique artisanal vision |
| 169434 | Alan Zilberman | Washington City Paper | Fresh | — | 2021-12-29T21:01:10Z | 2021-12-29 21:01:10 | Wes Anderson's fast-paced anthology film takes on the structure of a literary magazine, using the writer's point of view to revisit twentieth century tumult. |
| 169435 | Dorothy Woodend | The Tyee (British Columbia) | Rotten | — | 2021-12-29T18:30:36Z | 2021-12-29 18:30:36 | The director overstuffed the pudding. It's a just a little tout much. Too arch, too actorly. After a while, drunk on art production, I collapsed in a heap muttering "Léa Seydoux nudie" under my breath. |
| 169436 | Alvaro Corujo | nostagefright.net | Fresh | 5/5 | 2021-12-29T18:10:28Z | 2021-12-29 18:10:28 | Wes Anderson proves once again that he is one of the best directors of recent years. The French Dispatch is undoubtedly one of his best films, where Anderson delights us with a flawless work. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 169437 | Jason Bailey | Crooked Marquee | Fresh | — | 2021-12-28T05:40:25Z | 2021-12-28 05:40:25 | It's not lightweight, and it's not silly, and there's a moment of genuine pathos at the end of the third story that's quite unlike anything Anderson has ever done. |
| 169438 | Douglas Davidson | Elements of Madness | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-12-27T13:20:04Z | 2021-12-27 13:20:04 | Wes Anderson's 10th film is about as Wes Andersony as it gets. To this point in his career, I'd argue that it's also the *most* Wes Andersony, for good or for bad. |
| 169439 | Asia Frey | Lagniappe (Mobile, AL) | Fresh | — | 2021-12-23T17:20:44Z | 2021-12-23 17:20:44 | By making a film about artists, Anderson has created an oblique autobiography about the creative process and its place in a vividly rendered, perfectly created dream world. |
| 169440 | Matt Pais | MattPais.com | Fresh | B+ | 2021-12-23T14:00:13Z | 2021-12-23 14:00:13 | Dizzying and surprising and perhaps a little too busy. |
| 169441 | Damien Straker | Impulse Gamer | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-12-22T10:00:11Z | 2021-12-22 10:00:11 | For a director prone to meticulous visuals, Dispatch's untidiness leaves it cluttered and over-scripted. It is a feast for the eyes, but a good journalist knows a strong story stands on its own. |
| 169442 | Matthew Toomey | ABC Radio Brisbane | Rotten | B- | 2021-12-19T23:00:16Z | 2021-12-19 23:00:16 | I've long been a fan of Wes Anderson but The French Dispatch is one of his least engaging efforts. It feels like a torrent of over-the-top narration and flashy adjectives. |
| 169443 | John Serba | Decider | Fresh | — | 2021-12-18T00:12:52Z | 2021-12-18 00:12:52 | [Anderson] never fails to find comedy and pathos in his oddball characters who live inside little ornately designed boxes, in a world more visually fantastical than ours, but one that’s quite often similar in its poignant emotional currency. |
| 169444 | Dominic Corry | New Zealand Herald | Fresh | — | 2021-12-17T20:51:24Z | 2021-12-17 20:51:24 | Directorial popinjay Wes Anderson presents an anthological collection of stories carried along by his reliably delightful aesthetic and a typically stacked cast all clearly having fun. |
| 169445 | Bill Newcott | The Saturday Evening Post | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-17T14:50:26Z | 2021-12-17 14:50:26 | Bundles everything admirers love most about (Anderson's) work and presents it to us, warm and inviting, like an apple tarte tatin soaked in gin and dappled with juniper. Dig in. C'est magnifique. |
| 169446 | Kate Rodger | Newshub (NZ) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-17T01:20:58Z | 2021-12-17 01:20:58 | What I was left wanting was more heart and connectivity to the film as a whole. But I simply loved being in the company of all these characters for a few hours. |
| 169447 | Kent Garrison | Mad About Movies Podcast | Fresh | A- | 2021-12-16T17:40:51Z | 2021-12-16 17:40:51 | Wes Anderson makes the most random and niche topics and settings absolutely delightful. |
| 169448 | James Croot | The Post NZ | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-13T20:40:35Z | 2021-12-13 20:40:35 | For those who can't get enough of his unique way of storytelling, this near two-hour portmanteau piece will be pure catnip. Welcome to peak Wes Anderson. |
| 169449 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Rotten | 4/10 | 2021-12-13T17:10:33Z | 2021-12-13 17:10:33 | I am a big Wes Anderson fan but this one was unforgivingly boring. |
| 169450 | Sandra Hall | Sydney Morning Herald | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-11T03:01:05Z | 2021-12-11 03:01:05 | The overall effect of all this is a particularly whimsical form of escapism -- as if an excessive knowledge of reality has brought on a state of nostalgia for a world that never was. |
| 169451 | Jim Schembri | jimschembri.com | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-12-10T00:21:04Z | 2021-12-10 00:21:04 | Anderson - whose long CV includes some pretty good films such as Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and...that's about it - has never been all that compelled by the storytelling principle of emotionally engaging with an audience. That reputation is furthered here. |
| 169452 | John Lui | The Straits Times (Singapore) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-09T21:00:49Z | 2021-12-09 21:00:49 | Those who like [The Grand Budapest Hotel] will find plenty to like here. |
| 169453 | Thomas Caldwell | ABC Radio Melbourne | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2021-12-09T20:00:44Z | 2021-12-09 20:00:44 | It is an exhilarating experience to watch a film made with so much joy, confidence and delight. |
| 169454 | CJ Johnson | Film Mafia | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-09T03:20:31Z | 2021-12-09 03:20:31 | A gloriously cheerful celebration of The New Yorker, France, erudition, intellectualism and writing ... astonishingly crafted, full of exquisite detail, and very, very funny. |
| 169455 | Joanne Soh | The New Paper (Singapore) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-09T01:20:37Z | 2021-12-09 01:20:37 | The French Dispatch is classic Anderson: quirky, imaginative and aesthetically exquisite. Alexandre Desplat's playful score is also a home run. |
| 169456 | Luke Goodsell | ABC News (Australia) | Fresh | — | 2021-12-09T00:40:29Z | 2021-12-09 00:40:29 | In its portrait of a past that never really was, The French Dispatch's contrivance is inseparable from its poignancy. |
| 169457 | Shane Slater | Film Actually | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2021-12-07T04:40:25Z | 2021-12-07 04:40:25 | Amid the mostly unadventurous visual language of most cinematic fare, The French Dispatch truly feels like a full feast after a period of starvation. |
| 169458 | Sebastian Zavala Kahn | Cinencuentro | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-12-05T15:40:19Z | 2021-12-05 15:40:19 | I could only admire the film, much like an artistic installation, without caring about its characters or its conflicts. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 169459 | Lisa Trifone | Third Coast Review | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2021-12-03T23:51:14Z | 2021-12-03 23:51:14 | Anderson seems to be in on the joke more than ever, leaning solidly into his own quirkiness and delivering a charming, star-studded affair... |
| 169460 | Jared Mobarak | Jaredmobarak.com | Fresh | 7/10 | 2021-12-03T20:21:01Z | 2021-12-03 20:21:01 | It's an exhilarating ride regardless of whether it leaves you unsatisfied and wanting more by the end. That's just Anderson guaranteeing job security. |
| 169461 | Alejandro Lingenti | La Nación (Argentina) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-03T18:21:22Z | 2021-12-03 18:21:22 | A unique voice, at times difficult to follow and above all to emulate. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 169462 | Grant Watson | Fiction Machine | Fresh | 6/10 | 2021-12-02T23:11:12Z | 2021-12-02 23:11:12 | If you like or hate Wes Anderson's previous feature films, you will most likely like or hate The French Dispatch. |
| 169463 | Andrea Thompson | A Reel of One's Own | Rotten | D | 2021-11-29T22:10:43Z | 2021-11-29 22:10:43 | The mistake that "The French Dispatch" makes is classic in itself, that of indulging what it's trying to criticize. |
| 169464 | Hannah Lodge | Screen Rex | Rotten | — | 2021-11-29T16:10:28Z | 2021-11-29 16:10:28 | Though some stories provide a satisfying narrative click by their close, too many of them don't, which disrupts the flow of The French Dispatch. |
| 169465 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Rotten | 2/4 | 2021-11-25T14:50:22Z | 2021-11-25 14:50:22 | ...uninvolving and almost aggressively sluggish... |
| 169466 | Ron Wilkinson | It's Just Movies | Fresh | 8/10 | 2021-11-20T21:30:29Z | 2021-11-20 21:30:29 | If the directors past films employ artistic license this one is beyond the pale into fantasy. |
| 169467 | Linda Cook | OurQuadCities / WHBF-TV (Illinois) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2021-11-19T06:20:23Z | 2021-11-19 06:20:23 | It's the most Wes Anderson-y of Wes Anderson's films. |
| 169468 | Marie Asner | Phantom Tollbooth | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-11-18T23:30:52Z | 2021-11-18 23:30:52 | Wes Anderson is at it again. |
| 169469 | Robert Roten | Laramie Movie Scope | Rotten | C | 2021-11-17T20:10:34Z | 2021-11-17 20:10:34 | Anderson shows me a lot of imagination in this movie. The trouble with it is the same trouble that afflicts other episodic movies: The four chapters don't really fit together to make a whole story. |
| 169470 | Mattie Lucas | From the Front Row | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2021-11-17T03:40:20Z | 2021-11-17 03:40:20 | As sad and thoughtful and funny as anything Anderson has ever made, a sparkling gem in the illustrious career of a filmmaker who refuses to be pinned down, even when everyone thinks they have him figured out. |
| 169471 | Fletcher Powell | KMUW - Wichita Public Radio | Fresh | — | 2021-11-16T17:50:33Z | 2021-11-16 17:50:33 | The French Dispatch succeeds so wonderfully because Wes Anderson gives it so many opportunities. |
| 169472 | Jorge Iván Morales | Cine Premiere | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2021-11-15T17:30:37Z | 2021-11-15 17:30:37 | Although I would 't say that this is [Wes Anderson's] most successful film... the filmmaker's ability to infect us with that historical moment that none of us lived through is remarkable. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 169473 | Joanne Laurier | World Socialist Web Site | Fresh | — | 2021-11-15T17:10:27Z | 2021-11-15 17:10:27 | The concerns are literate and sometimes intriguing but limited. |
| 169474 | Zehra Phelan | Flavourmag | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-11-15T11:40:21Z | 2021-11-15 11:40:21 | Full of vibrant and clever compositions, but it doesn't make up for the fact the comedy and coherency of this story are woefully lacking. |
| 169475 | Rhys Bowen Jones | JumpCut Online | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2021-11-15T00:02:15Z | 2021-11-15 00:02:15 | This is Anderson at his most Anderson, and he's having the time of his life. |
| 169476 | Hugues Porquier | Battle Royale With Cheese | Fresh | — | 2021-11-14T19:00:30Z | 2021-11-14 19:00:30 | The French Dispatch is a delicate and well-realized ode to journalism, art, and French culture. |
| 169477 | Katie Smith-Wong | Movie Marker | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-11-12T13:00:33Z | 2021-11-12 13:00:33 | Delivers in comedy and style to create a whimsical, chaotic yet visually stylish feature that speaks to the Francophile within us. |
| 169478 | Ricardo Gallegos | La Estatuilla | Fresh | — | 2021-11-12T05:20:23Z | 2021-11-12 05:20:23 | A magnificent audiovisual exercise that will work according to your affinity towards the director's work. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 169479 | Eileen Jones | The Jacobin | Rotten | — | 2021-11-11T20:50:39Z | 2021-11-11 20:50:39 | It's not as if there's absolutely no reason to see the film, which gleams like any finicking, high-quality, obsessively polished craftwork...but as always, you have to fight your way through the suffocatingly arch-Andersonian sensibility to get to them. |
| 169480 | Robin Holabird | KUNR (Reno, NV) | Fresh | — | 2021-11-10T20:10:43Z | 2021-11-10 20:10:43 | Director Anderson's knack with actors assembles a bouquet of talent, infusing his imaginative world with pleasurable energy. |
| 169481 | Allen Adams | The Maine Edge | Fresh | 5/5 | 2021-11-10T19:10:37Z | 2021-11-10 19:10:37 | [Q]uintessentially Anderson, a film that brings all of his considerable gifts to bear, a tonal and thematic delight brought forward by a staggeringly talented and accomplished cast and crew. Consider me a satisfied subscriber. |
| 169482 | Shawn Edwards | Fox 4 Kansas City | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-11-10T17:20:31Z | 2021-11-10 17:20:31 | I have a cinematic crush on Wes Anderson, but The French Dispatch turned me off...everyone seemed to be a bit underused and the tone is way too quirky... |
| 169483 | Jeffrey Overstreet | JeffreyOverstreet.com (Ghost.io) | Fresh | A- | 2021-11-10T05:50:15Z | 2021-11-10 05:50:15 | Anderson's devoting every resource at his disposal to realizing grander visions. The results are more like museums than paintings, more like restaurants than mere meals. |
| 169484 | Edwin Arnaudin | Asheville Movies | Fresh | A | 2021-11-08T18:20:45Z | 2021-11-08 18:20:45 | The gold standard for narrative filmmaking in 2021. |
| 169485 | Filipe Freitas | Always Good Movies | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-11-06T16:10:18Z | 2021-11-06 16:10:18 | The cinematic world of Wes Anderson remains fascinating, abundant in detail and eccentrically rich. |
| 169486 | Lynn Venhaus | PopLifeSTL | Fresh | B | 2021-11-06T08:40:17Z | 2021-11-06 08:40:17 | ...despite its splendid cast, there isn't a single character that emotionally resonates. |
| 169487 | Linda and Al Lerner | Movies and Shakers | Fresh | — | 2021-11-06T02:22:07Z | 2021-11-06 02:22:07 | It's a little uneven, but as a sendoff to these legendary writers along with Anderson's love of language and painstaking presentation, the French Dispatch delivers. |
| 169488 | Russ Simmons | KKFI-FM (Kansas City) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-11-06T00:52:22Z | 2021-11-06 00:52:22 | One could argue that it's an example of style over substance, but "The French Dispatch" still has its oddball charms. |
| 169489 | Kevin Carr | Fat Guys at the Movies | Fresh | 3/4 | 2021-11-05T23:21:57Z | 2021-11-05 23:21:57 | [Anderson] seemed to trade the story away for quirkiness.... but it's still a neat movie if you like Wes Anderson movies. |
| 169490 | Armond White | National Review | Rotten | — | 2021-11-05T22:11:28Z | 2021-11-05 22:11:28 | The French Dispatch is a Millennial creation, set at the title publication's headquarters in the preciously named town Ennui sur blasé. That means it celebrates journalism as a class marker, American arrogance served à la Française. |
| 169491 | Tim Brayton | Alternate Ending | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-11-05T04:50:18Z | 2021-11-05 04:50:18 | A film that is, first and foremost, about aesthetics. |
| 169492 | George Elkind | Metro Times (Detroit, MI) | Fresh | — | 2021-11-04T20:41:13Z | 2021-11-04 20:41:13 | The director's style has evolved to a level of finesse and personal peculiarity that leaves him stylistically alone among his peers, resulting in works that simply don't look like anyone else's. |
| 169493 | Hilary A White | Sunday Independent (Ireland) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-11-04T20:31:20Z | 2021-11-04 20:31:20 | Those who believe that the basic confectionery of Anderson's style is the main draw, and the stories themselves something of a side-act, will be in heaven. Agnostics, however, are likely to come away unchanged. |
| 169494 | Louisa Moore | Screen Zealots | Fresh | — | 2021-11-04T08:20:08Z | 2021-11-04 08:20:08 | Anderson's carefully constructed whimsy creates a bounty of eccentricity that will either delight or irritate (sometimes both). |
| 169495 | MontiLee Stormer | MovieReelist.com | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-11-04T04:10:14Z | 2021-11-04 04:10:14 | I don't want to take anything away from Wes Anderson as a filmmaker, because his movies are wonder and whimsy, but my whimsy bucket is shallow, and by story #3, I was ready to tap out. |
| 169496 | Matt Hudson | What I Watched Tonight | Rotten | 4.5/10 | 2021-11-02T13:30:29Z | 2021-11-02 13:30:29 | The French Dispatch has all of the traditional Wes conventions but it feels less fun this time, it feels too neurotic to enjoy, too indulgent to ever feel welcoming. |
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