US EditionMovie review: 'One Battle After Another' an epic of absurdity, action
- Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie, One Battle After Another, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, is scheduled to hit theaters on September 26, 2025.
- The film, made 30 years into Anderson's career, adapts and modernizes Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland, reflecting today's sociopolitical issues including immigration and extremist ideologies.
- One Battle After Another follows Bob Ferguson, an ex-leftist revolutionary played by DiCaprio, as he protects his teenage daughter Willa from a menacing border guard known as Colonel Steven Lockjaw.
- The film features a $130M-$175M budget, a near three-hour runtime, a score by Jonny Greenwood, and politically charged performances including Sean Penn as the captivating villain Lockjaw.
- Critics applaud the film's urgent social commentary, intense action, and thematic focus on family and resistance, suggesting it cements Anderson’s status as a leading contemporary director.
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‘One Battle After Another’ Review: Leonardo DiCaprio Lebowskis His Way Through the Revolution
Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson is always challenging himself to do something different, for better and worse. In his early films he was accused of watching and internalizing too much Robert Altman, as if that’s some unforgivable sin, but he kept expanding his scope and broadening his ambitions. He’s made Great American Epics about oil men and religious icons, he’s made intimate marriage dramas about the fashion industry and poison mushrooms. He …
One Battle After Another review: Leonardo DiCaprio shines in the best film of the year so far
★★★★★One Battle After Another is in cinemas from Friday 26 September. Add it to your watchlistThere comes a point in most Paul Thomas Anderson films where the viewer realises they've been drawn completely under the filmmaker's spell. The writer/director – whose spotless filmography includes such gems as Magnolia, There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread, to name just three – has an almost unparalleled skill for weaving rich and complex narratives …
‘One Battle After Another’ Is An Action Blockbuster Like No Other
The term “masterpiece” gets bandied about a little too casually these days, but director Paul Thomas Anderson has no less than three in his filmography (the choice of which ones is obviously a source of furious debate amongst cinephiles). His latest feature, the darkly comic action thriller One Battle After Another, can confidently be counted as yet another.Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a former member of a radical revolutionary group whose past…
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Ottumwa CourierMovie Review: 'One Battle After Another' is an American masterpiece
In Paul Thomas Anderson’s gloriously messy, madcap roller coaster ride through modern America, objects in the rear view may go out of sight, but they don’t disappear.
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