The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (dir. Wes Anderson).

Anderson’s triptych of short stories heightens his own stylistic touches by being free from the reigns of any semblance of a traditional narrative. However, The French Dispatch’s freewheeling direction often sidetracks the filmmaker’s usual heart and whimsy while making it harder to invest in all the colourful original characters aside from maybe the leaner first entry with [Benicio] del Tero and [Léa] Seydoux’s transfixing chemistry as unlikely artists/lovers. Much of the densely-packed film feels like a loose anthology of side adventures.