The film’s quirky setting and stellar cast, which includes Jason Schwartzman, Tom Hanks and Scarlett Johansson, cannot redeem its languid incoherence.
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"Asteroid City," in theaters Friday, finally reaches the limit of writer/director Wes Anderson's idiosyncratic style, revealing an emptiness no amount of whimsy can rescue.
Though 'Asteroid City' delivers heady philosophical concepts and exquisite visual mastery, it's short on cohesive storytelling. But it almost doesn't matter given the film's attempt to allegorize narrative.
The writer-director's 1955-set feature, starring Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks and many others, toggles between a desert town and a New York soundstage.
Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks star in this play-within-a-TV-show-within-a-movie that takes place in a small 1950s desert town that's hosting an astronomy convention for kids.
Big news in specialty this weekend as Asteroid City arrives in theaters with Wes Anderson and his army of fans behind it and a major marketing campaign by Focus Features. The director’s lates…
