The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
As comedy seem to be bending to the whims of masses who, for some undiscernible reason, delight in “relatable humor” hold the humor, Wes Anderson’s theater of the casually absurd might hit harder today than if it weren’t running a “For Your Consideration” campaign opposite “Don’t Look Up”. Regardless, what’s here is bountiful wit and calculated humor cataloguing considerable disasters and the disasters that catalogue them, one narrator being praised for his work in “true crime (and) false crime” and another being admonished with “don’t criticize my manifesto”. One hundred minutes that feel like thirty, and one of Anderson’s best.
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