Asteroid City | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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Asteroid City was one of the more “obscure” Wes Anderson films I have ever seen. While the actors, filmography, and scenery is all great, I think the movie is bland in story and composition. The storyline isn't great and for me, doesn't really match much with the story I was expecting.

It means keep telling the story. I think Wes Anderson is telling us to create. To fall asleep, and to dream. You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep and in “Asteroid City,” Wes Anderson lulls us to sleep.

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It began a limited theatrical release through Focus Features in the United States on June 16, 2023, expanding to a wide release a week later. It grossed $54 million worldwide on a $25 million budget, and received generally positive reviews.

What we're about to see, he gravely tells us, is the story behind the making of a play called Asteroid City, about a place that doesn't exist. It's both an apocryphal fabrication and an “authentic look into the work of a theatrical production.”

The film explores themes of loneliness and the power of human connection in a complex and layered story set in a desolate desert town. The lack of clear meaning or resolution in some aspects of the film actually serves to reinforce its central theme of embracing uncertainty and moving forward in life.

Stanley Zak : In my loneliness, and perhaps because of it, I've learned not to judge people, to take people as I find them, not as others find them. And most of all, to give complete and unquestioning faith to the people I love. Stanley Zak : I didn't love you. Augie Steenbeck : You didn't think I was worthy.

His place in the world is thrown further into doubt by the arrival of an enigmatic extra-terrestrial, leading the single father to ask searching existential questions. The inability to dismiss his doubts leads the widower to do something important: without reason he burns his hand on a griddle.

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Augie does eventually burn his hand on the Quickie Griddle, but neither he nor we really know why.

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This makes the movie unsuitable for children under 14 and parental guidance is recommended for children aged 14-15. The main messages from Asteroid City are to not take life too seriously, and that what is seen on the screen is far from reality.

Critics Reviews

This honorable and enlightening film pays due respect to Jackie Robinson -- a sports legend and courageous American hero. Content collapsed. A dramatization of what Robinson did and what it required, 42 will not disappoint.

Asteroid City is about stories held within frames—window frames, camera frames, the frames that hold a stage together, the frames of an exercise or scene; it is about the structures that exist outside of us, but also about their limits, and that however much we try to control our stories, they have a life of their own.