<em>Asteroid City</em> Is Wes Anderson at His Best
The film makes the case that art can convey feelings that even its creators don’t understand.
I am here, hat in hand, to admit that I underestimated Wes Anderson. I’ve enjoyed the filmmaker’s work for many years—his methodical aesthetic, the subject of a , might be the most recognizable in moviemaking right now. But in the past decade or so, I struggled to excavate much deeper meaning beneath Anderson’s fine-tuned flair, and began to worry that he was disappearing inside his own eccentricities. and , in particular, seemed like charming, flimsy confections. His new film, , is a
