Asteroid City Asteroid City: reviews

What the critics say average 7.8 from 3 outlets

• 8.0 EmpireJohn Nugent Truly delightful. Wes Anderson leans into his trademark eccentricities for a trip to the desert that won't win any converts but will keep the Anderson faithful content. Read
• 8.0 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw The movie rattles cleverly and exhilaratingly along, adroitly absorbing the implications of pathos and loneliness without allowing itself to slow down. It is tempting to consider this savant blankness as some kind of symptom, but I really don't think so: it is the expression of style. And what style it is. Read
• 7.5 The PlaylistRodrigo Perez The minor problem of it all is while what Anderson is trying to say can be read across the sky like a beautifully glistening moonbeam; it does often lack the craterous depth of feeling we know he's capable of when doing his best creative and emotional astrography. Read