While not being the strongest Wes Anderson film, largely due to how the anthology aspect hinders the narrative, The French Dispatch still has all the clever direction and dry wit that have made him such an iconic director and is still plenty of fun to watch from start to finish. Anderson never fails to tell a uniquely bizarre story, and for better or worse, The French Dispatch is a perfect showing of that.

Wes Anderson is at his most Wes Anderson-y in this film, an anthology collection of shorts about a group of writers at the French Dispatch. A true who's who of Hollywood stars appear in the stories, representing the articles in the final issue of the publication. Incredibly charming, but ultimately forgettable.

A love letter to real journalism, Wes Anderson holds nothing back in this collection of vignettes starring the staff of the titular magazine. Laugh-out-loud in its visual humor on more than one occasion.

I'm kind of torn on this, because I am a huge Wes Anderson fan. And it has everything a Wes Anderson film should have -- outlandish plots, huge cast, and style -- but I felt sometimes went too far in the direction of style over substance, lacking some tightness of his other films.