One Thing About: The French Dispatch

Instead of writing overall move/TV/book/music reviews, I like to focus on one scene, or line, or single tiny thing that made me think, or laugh, or feel, or whatever. This is One Thing About...

The French Dispatch is a 2021 film by writer-director Wes Anderson. The film uses an anthology format to explore the stories told in the final issue of the titular magazine. In the first of the three stories, Benicio del Toro plays Moses Rosenthaler, an artist serving a prison sentence for murder. Rosenthaler becomes a sensation in the art world after a…