Review of Asteroid City (2023) by Vulgaris — 28 Jun 2023

It's a story within a story. One story is about a writer who doesn't know what to do with his story. He promptly dies and nothing happens. The other is the story he wrote, which is a mess about some random people who end up in a random town in the middle of nowhere. The protagonist seems to be this widower, and nothing happens to him. He learns nothing and nothing changes, the death of his wife has no effect on him. His actor learns that there was a deleted scene in the script in which his character suffers with his wife death, but that has zero relevance. And there is an extra-terrestrial that comes to the town twice in order to track a rock and his presence has almost no effect in the story.

It all goes to prove that it doesn't matter how nice the film looks and how good is your cast, if the story is rubbish, the film is rubbish.