It’s a very good thing for fans of the filmmaker, but probably not the right on-ramp for people not already steeped in the clockwork insanity of Anderson’s cinematic expressions.
The film is packed with so many ideas and cast members old and new — Tom Hanks joins such Anderson regulars as Jason SchwartzmanScarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Wright and Steve Carell — it’s difficult to keep track of where they are, what they’re doing, and what’s supposed to be real and what’s not. There is much talk about time and the meaning of life.
The story is set in September 1955, during a junior stargazers event held annually in the desert town of the title, named for where an asteroid strike left a giant crater 5,000 years ago.
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