“Asteroid City” is due out June 16 via Focus Features and features an all-star cast led by Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Steve Carell, and the usual Anderson players like Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, and Liev Schreiber. The studio describes the film as follows: “‘Asteroid City’ takes place in a fictional American desert town circa 1955. “‘Asteroid City’ is one of those, only more so.” “Then there are the Anderson films that even most of his fans don’t pretend to like all that much - the fussy, top-heavy, narratively batty yet stretched-thin concoctions like ‘The Darjeeling Limited’ and ‘The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,’” Gleiberman wrote. “‘Asteroid City’ is thick with Americana, but the charming hootenanny of it all works in tandem with the deep questions the director is asking.”įor Variety, Owen Gleiberman boo-hissed “Asteroid City” – and like Rooney, compared it unfavorably to two favorable Anderson films, “The Life Aquatic” and “The Darjeeling Limited.” Here, that’s quite literally the case as he strands a bunch of people in 1955 in a tiny fictitious desert town in the American Southwest with a population of 87, isolating them there after an alien encounter that prompts the government to step in and impose military quarantine.”įor The Daily Beast, Esther Zuckerman found herself on Team Wes, and like Ehrlich, found “Asteroid City” to be Anderson’s best film since “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” It’s a “thoroughly hilarious piece that coalesces into something almost haunting,” she wrote. Anderson has always been like a smart kid playing in a hermetically sealed sandbox of quirky action figures and quaint toys. “The writer-director seldom seems more self-satisfied than when he’s spinning his wheels. “Asteroid City” is an “archly cutesy new film joins the ranks of Anderson’s more distancing work, notably ‘The Darjeeling Limited’ and ‘The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,’” Rooney wrote, citing two other cult favorite Anderson movies that split critics upon release. But on the other end of the spectrum, there’s The Hollywood Reporter critic David Rooney.
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