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Jeff Spry

Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City' is a love letter to UFO culture

tables and chairs are set up in a crater bathed in green light

UFO fever is at a seeming all-time high.

Given that those pesky UFOs (or unidentified anomalous phenomena/UAP as they're now known) refuse to reveal themselves, this is the ideal time for "Asteroid City," a fun new Wes Anderson sci-fi flick centered around a band of junior scientist inventors convening in the Arizona desert in the mid-'50s to experience a close encounter during a high school science competition.

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