US EditionConstant Surprises: Leonardo DiCaprio Is Wonderfully Unhinged in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Masterful ‘One Battle After Another’
Paul Thomas Anderson’s film depicts a far-left militant group’s fight against migrant detention and government forces amid rising political violence, earning a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score.
- Director Paul Thomas Anderson released his politically charged film One Battle After Another this weekend, set in an authoritarian future America.
- The film grew from themes about leftist paramilitary actions and the failures of the political Left since the 1970s amid rising authoritarianism.
- The story follows Leonardo DiCaprio’s radical Bob Ferguson and Sean Penn’s antagonist Colonel Lockjaw in a violent ideological conflict over the country's future.
- Reviewers praised the movie’s $130 million production, calling it an electrifying thriller with a climactic car chase and a message to confront authoritarianism.
- The film’s success suggests growing public interest in politically urgent cinema and inspires debate about the personal versus political motives driving resistance.
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Constant surprises: Leonardo DiCaprio is wonderfully unhinged in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Masterful ‘One Battle After Another’
Back in the day, director Paul Thomas Anderson offered the role of Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights to Leonardo DiCaprio, who instead chose to go sink on a big boat and cement his status as one of the biggest actors in Hollywood. Although he’s extremely happy he made Titanic, DiCaprio has expressed regret that he did not do Boogie Nights, a film he greatly admires. The two finally get another chance to pair up in Anderson’s 10th feature film, One B…
‘One Battle After Another’: Paul Thomas Anderson’s timely masterpiece
Some movies come along at exactly the moment they’re needed. In the opening minutes of One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic marvel of serious entertainment, a strike team of radical activists descends on a border detainment facility by night. They corral the soldiers on duty into a cage at gunpoint, cut the chains holding the gates closed and herd more than 100 men, women and children into a waiting truck to be whisked off to a …
Go See One Battle After Another Right Now
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another deserves all the hype it’s getting. Run, don’t walk, to this thrilling, hilarious, moving, and all too prescient portrait of American radicals on the run from right-wing authoritarians. Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another. (Warner Bros. Pictures) Glory be, I really liked and admired Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. It’s enthralling, it’s hard-hitting, it’s up-to-the-minut…
‘One Battle After Another’ Is an Action Comedy About the Future
We’re not sure who runs America in Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, One Battle After Another. No president is ever mentioned. Leftist militants bomb a fictional senator’s office, but that’s as far as we know about what Congress is up to. We don’t know what year it is. We don’t know anything about the alternate history that brought the characters to this moment.What we do know is that the country is engulfed in what could be called a low-grade…
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