![]() ![]() It’s supposedly a love letter to the New Yorker of yore, but while The French Dispatch features Anderson’s familiar aesthetic style, it’s often a distant omnibus that might appeal only to his most ardent fans. ![]() ![]() And yet this is the director’s least digestible work. Anderson’s penchant for dry comedy used to explain grief, the inner workings of dysfunctional people, and children experiencing the loss of innocence comes to the forefront once again. As is often the case with anthology-style films, some sections work better than others. The film is divided into five separate vignettes, each a reported column belonging to a specific newspaper section, written by one of the journalists. How does The French Dispatch compare to his previous work? From our review, Anderson’s proclivity for fastidiously detailed set, bright colors, irreverent deadpan humor, and quirky characters has won him both acclaim and criticism throughout his career. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch is a self-proclaimed “love letter to journalists,” and a comedy anthology following the misadventures of a group of hapless columnists working for the eccentric editor of an American newspaper in the fictional French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé (Boredom-upon-Apathy). Where to watch: Available to stream on HBO Max Image: Searchlight Pictures To help you get a handle on what’s new and available, here are the new movies you can watch with the click of a button this weekend. There’s plenty more in the way of streaming releases as Netflix’s The Hand of God, Hulu’s Mother/Android, and Apple TV Plus’ Swan Song all premiere this weekend as well. Venom: Let There Be Carnage finally lands on VOD this weekend along with Wes Anderson’s latest comedy anthology The French Dispatch. Not feeling up to going out this weekend? No problem, there’s still tons of great movies and no shortage of superheroics to enjoy on VOD and streaming from the comfort of your home. Go see this film, and stick around for the end-credits scene because it's going to make Venom fans happy.This weekend, the long-awaited Spider-Man: No Way Home finally swings on to theater screens, in addition to Guillermo del Toro’s psychological thriller Nightmare Alley starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett. And if you weren't totally sold on the original Venom, there's every chance you'll like this movie a lot more. If you liked the first movie, you're going to love this sequel. Plus this movie actually finishes the origin story framework started in the first film, with our main character finally deciding to be the "the lethal protector" anti-hero Venom. It's funnier by a mile, the action is much improved and the overall story is considerably more compelling. It's rare for a sequel to outperform the original, but Venom: Let There Be Carnage does so in every possible way. And in the middle of this couple breaking up and getting back together, two giant aliens beat the stuffing out of one another - which is beautiful in a different way.Ī great deal of time is spent on whether it's more important to be the strongest physically or the strongest as a team, and while most superhero movies deliver this message in the most ham-fisted way possible Let There Be Carnage actually carries some onscreen emotional charge in between the shattered pillars and stabby sound effects. The relationship between Eddie and Venom is treated like an actual relationship, and while director Andy Serkis largely depicts this through a comedic lens it still leaves you with a warm happy feeling. The movie truly shines in its well-timed moments of emotion, and in the fight between Venom and Carnage. There's also some awkwardness in the definition of Carnage's abilities, at one point inserting itself into a laptop and hacking a government database to advance the plot. In truth, demonstrating that Carnage is a lot more violent and messy than Venom is challenging under these limitations, and in some scenes your imagination is doing most of the heavy lifting. As a result, much of the actual carnage is done through bloodless body slams and lots of property destruction with the occasional implied eating of heads. At least, it would be if this movie wasn't rated PG-13. Where Eddie isn't keen to hurt anyone and Venom is happy to only hurt wrongdoers, Carnage and Kassidy have neither of those limitations and the result is extremely violent. Eddie's efforts to force Venom to fall in line with what he needs to feel like a normal and productive member of society backfire spectacularly, accidentally creating the symbiote offspring Carnage inside Kassidy. ![]()
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