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Wes Anderson's 'The French Dispatch' is Good. Period(ical). : Pop Culture Happy Hour Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch is a love letter to classic French cinema and The New Yorker magazine. Like all of his films, it's highly stylized — this one adopts the format of a magazine. It's an anthology of sorts, featuring three different main stories. The film's actors Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Benicio del Toro, Timothée Chalamet, and Jeffrey Wright.

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Wes Anderson's 'The French Dispatch' is Good. Period(ical).

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Wes Anderson's 'The French Dispatch' is Good. Period(ical).

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Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky and Jeffrey Wright in Wes Anderson's film, The French Dispatch. Searchlight Pictures hide caption

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Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky and Jeffrey Wright in Wes Anderson's film, The French Dispatch.

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Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch is a love letter to classic French cinema and The New Yorker magazine. Like all of his films, it's highly stylized — this one adopts the format of a magazine. It's an anthology of sorts, featuring three different main stories. The film's actors Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Benicio del Toro, Timothée Chalamet, and Jeffrey Wright.

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