Wes Andersonville

The best Warner Bros. cartoon is a live-action feature, Asteroid City, from Universal Pictures. Written and directed by Wes Anderson, the titular city goes from a small town to a boomtown in spite of the boom on the horizon: the mushroom cloud that shakes the ground without shocking the conscience of this world, population 87, according to the rules of the Road Runner, and a cameo by a roadrunner, and the influence of Looney Tunes. The incongruity of the setting complements the insouciance of the players themselves, for the hole in their lives is as deep and wide as the hole that brings them to the bottom of the meteor crater on-screen.