Asteroid City

  • Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Steve Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie
  • Wes Anderson
  • June 19th 2023
Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.

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Asteroid City

Verdict: Asteroid City is another case of style over substance for Wes Anderson

  • Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Steve Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie
  • June 19th 2023
  • Wes Anderson

Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks and Jason Schwartzman star in Wes Anderson’s latest whimsical offering Asteroid City.

With Asteroid City, you know exactly what you’re going to get – Wes Anderson’s signature visual style and whimsical tone.

The comedy-drama, set in 1955, stars war photographer Augie Steenbeck (Jason Schwartzman), his son Woodrow (Jake Ryan), actress Midge Campbell (Scarlett Johansson) and her daughter Dinah (Grace Edwards) as they descend upon the remote desert town for an event.

Woodrow and Dinah are being honoured for their scientific inventions at the Junior Stargazers convention, which is being held inside the crater left by the Arid Plains meteorite. Their lives are all changed by an unexpected event.

A film-within-a-play, Asteroid City is ridiculously star-studded. There are so many famous faces packed in here but only a handful of genuinely substantial characters so a lot of the talented actors are underused or downright wasted.

It’s remarkable that massive stars who can lead their own films signed up to shoot...

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