‘One Battle After Another’ Tosses a Molotov Cocktail Into the Megaplex

‘One Battle After Another’ Tosses a Molotov Cocktail Into the Megaplex

A film about political violence feels contemporary. Plus: 10 stocks to watch in the fourth quarter.

One Battle After Another Is a Leftist Fantasia on National Themes.

The revolution will not be televised, it will be in VistaVision.

'One Battle After Another' is a love letter to radicals

Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest work, One Battle After Another, is a triumphant and ostentatious spectacle about morally repugnant monsters. “The message is clear,” declares one of its pseudo-protagonists in the opening scene, “free borders and free bodies.” Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Bob Ferguson, a burnt-out radical whose paranoia and half-functioning memory cells are all that remain from his revolutionary heyday. Alongside his girlfri…

The Best Performance in One Battle After Another Is its Quietest

This post contains spoilers for One Battle After Another. Paul Thomas Anderson‘s One Battle After Another is chock-full of amazing performances. There’s Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead as bumbling former revolutionary Bob Ferguson. Teyana Taylor gives a searing turn as current revolutionary and Bob’s former lover Perfidia Beverly Hills. And Sean Penn steals every scene as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Colonel Lockjaw, the law enforcer who kidnapped Bob an…

One Battle After Another Is a Leftist Fantasia on National Themes

Episode Notes On this week’s dispatch, Dana is joined by comrades in arms Sam Adams and Isaac Butler to take on Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrilling and incendiary new film One Battle After Another. Starring Leonard DiCaprio, the action epic depicts an America one notch away from our own fractured…