Wes Anderson looks to the stars in the arch, enrapturing Asteroid City – review

Even some of Wes Anderson’s most die-hard fans were put off by his 2021 film The French Dispatch, with its three-story structure and stilted, self-conscious evocation of literary France. Anderson hasn’t changed his storytelling technique in the slightest for his new film Asteroid City, which has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, but his recent detractors will be relieved nonetheless: this is his most enrapturing feature since The Grand Budapest…