Overall, 'The French Dispatch' feels like the work of an artist that was created specifically for devotees of his work and, as such, functions less as a cohesive piece than it would otherwise.

“Summer’s End” inlet is the poetically apt destination for a pair of adolescent teens in the first flush of young love following a year of pen-pal correspondences and being hunted by comically anxious parents, scoutmasters, and...