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Oscar winner Adam Stockhausen explains the visual details of frequent collaborator Wes Anderson’s metatextual comedy, which leaned into the film’s film stage setting to present a vibrant vision of the region.

In Asteroid City, the latest film from Wes Anderson, directorial control competes with the free play that gives life to cinema.

To explain Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” an ambitious yet mystifyingly dysfunctional meta-movie, in terms of both form and content, it may be helpful to walk a prospective viewer backward, outward

In his latest film, Anderson asks us how art and storytelling give our lives meaning. 

Wes Anderson, known for his self-conscious, tableaux-laden tales of arch strangeness, has come home to America after sojourning the world. What he has discovered here is a country many miss.

Wes Anderson’s latest mirage, “Asteroid City,” carries a lighter and literally sunnier spirit than usual for this filmmaker, whose sense of whimsy can sometimes curdle into, well, a bit of

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ella, Gracie and Willan Faris landed in Spain two years ago to make their feature film debuts in Wes Anderson‘s “Asteroid City,” and like any first-timers, they

Wes Anderson’s latest mirage, “Asteroid City,” carries a lighter and literally sunnier spirit than usual for this filmmaker, whose sense of whimsy can sometimes curdle into, well, a bit of a load. Shooting in Spain, creating a drolly imagined Eisenhower-era desert town out of both practical and digital design elements, the big-sky, open-air setting of “Asteroid City” does something to ...

To explain Wes Andersons "Asteroid City," an ambitious yet mystifyingly dysfunctional...

The film’s greatest asset is not the status of its cast, but the restraint with which they’re used.