‘One Battle After Another’ Far From Masterpiece Status

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left

The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

There Will Be Buffoonery: Review of 'One Battle After Another'

“How does Leonardo DiCaprio get away with it?” ask the clickbait warriors at Slate. The question concerns the actor’s well-chronicled love of superyachts and 20-year-olds, but it might just as easily be posed of the Oscar winner’s choice of projects. In the 21st century thus far, DiCaprio has made exactly two movies that weren’t directed by a household name — Edward Zwick’s Blood Diamond (2006) and R. D. Robb’s Don’s Plum (2001). His other 18 co…

‘One Battle After Another’ Review: An Antifa Remake of the Racist ‘Birth of a Nation’

One Battle After Another is basically an inverted remake of D.W. Griffith's racist 1915 masterpiece, Birth of a Nation.

‘One Battle After Another’ far from masterpiece status

Few films have received as much hype and garnered as many glowing reviews as “One Battle After Another,” with some calling it a modern masterpiece. The film is led by Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, both big…

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘One Battle After Another’

Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is known as a top-tier talent without top-tier name recognition. None of his movies have made more than $50 million at the domestic box office, and despite 11 nominations, he’s never won himself an Academy Award…

One Paul Thomas Anderson Film After Another

With “One Battle After Another,” the beloved auteur is working outside his typical period-film framework. What is he trying to say about America today?