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Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” Is Blockbuster Filmmaking at the Highest Level
Paul Thomas Anderson’s politically charged film follows a burned out revolutionary who fights to protect his daughter from a white nationalist, earning $22 million opening weekend.
- Released on September 26, One Battle After Another has grossed $102 million worldwide and is currently in theaters.
- Loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, the film opens with the French 75 revolutionary group breaking into a California detention centre to free immigrants.
- Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Bob `Ghetto Pat` Ferguson, a washed-up revolutionary who repeatedly fails to save his daughter, while Sean Penn’s Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw hunts them amid Jonny Greenwood’s score and Colleen Atwood’s costumes.
- Holding a 96 per cent Rotten Tomatoes score, publications like the Globe and Mail praise the film and it is a 2026 Oscar contender.
- Conservative commentators including Ben Shapiro and David Marcus called the film an apologia for left-wing violence and warned it could provoke `bloodlust`, while other critics said it depicts a fantasy of a left that does not exist.
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A few days ago, One battle after another landed in cinemas and there is no one who does not talk about it. The film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is based in Vineland, a work that marked literature, but its creator remained totally out of public life. The story that decided to bring to the big screen the American screenwriter and film producer takes place mainly in Vineland, a fictional region of California wh…
I Saw ‘One Battle After Another’ Six Times in Six Formats in Six Days
From VistaVision to 70mm, the release strategy for Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film offers a plethora of options for discerning cinephiles, but which is the best? We watched them all to find out.
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Metro PhiladelphiaOne Battle Another: Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio Del Toro explore three visions of fatherhood
Warning: this article contains spoilers. In One Battle After Another, three characters (Bob Ferguson, Colonel Steven Lockjaw and Sergio St Carlos) represent three different models of fatherhood. Fatherhood is a timely theme. The place of men in society is being debated and challenged by polarising figures from both sides of the political spectrum. One side promotes a regressive vision of the patriarchal man harking back to ideals of fathers as d…
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