‘One Battle After Another’ Review: Dude, Where’s My Revolution?
The film adapts Thomas Pynchon's novel to depict ex-revolutionaries fighting a police state, highlighting themes of activism and persecution in a divided America.
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He's made the most incendiary movie of the year. But Paul Thomas Anderson remains an optimist
LOS ANGELES — Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie "One Battle After Another" opens in chaos. The sun is setting and the radical California revolutionary group the French 75 is raiding an immigration detention center along the southern border in ...
‘One Battle After Another’: A Revolutionary Romp of Reality and Racist Ridiculousness
This article was originally published on the DIASPORA Newsletter on September 18, 2025. Read and subscribe here! SPOILER ALERT: This article contains minor details about One Battle After Another. It’s not even 10 minutes into the movie, and a revolutionary named Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) is forcing bigot Captain Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn) to give himself an erection at gunpoint, while her fellow revolutionaries from a collective cal…
In Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" Leonardo DiCaprio plays the leading role. From absurd Revoluzzer characters to shockingly realistic villains, the film offers everything. Learn more in our review! This article was sorted under TV series / web series, entertainment, series, film reviews.
One Battle After Another Review: Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio Hail a New Revolution
Viva la revolución! As bellowed by the ex-radical and current schlub Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio), we have One Battle After Another’s most immediately memorable line, and arguably its thesis statement. But in this compelling, propulsive new film by Paul Thomas Anderson, it’s still worth scrutinizing the nuances, undertows, and implications of that command. With the Spanish maintained, and the line’s ties to the Cuban Revolution, it embodies …
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