As with Tár, this film continues to bounce around in my head and I feel like I'll love it more and more with every watch. One scene in particular has stuck with me the most: Margot Robbie's monologue. I'll attempt to explain why it works for me.

Asteroid City or "Asteroid City" as it's stylized is a film about abstractions. On the surface it's about a TV production of a fictional production of a play about the story of a…

Hell, if it exists, isn't a burning pit of fire, it's a cold Hungarian estate with relentless rain that makes you wet to the bone and the ground is so thick with mud that every step sinks your foot halfway deep before pulling yourself out.

There's no glimmer of humanity here though, it's as cynical as it gets. Textually and thematically I found the most interesting parts comes almost directly from the novel (the interstitial narration). This makes sense, since…

Honestly this film is probably a bit too cobbled together but the big action set pieces are still better than ever. As opposed to the usual formula of the Mission films: this is the mission, this is the team, this is the impossible thing Ethan needs to do; in this film we already know what the goal is and we know who the team is but this time we also need to know how this all connects to the first…