The critical Establishment is all in on Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie, One Battle After Another . A loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the movie is being praised for accurately capturing the terrible, sinking feeling of being alive in 2025. The film has been a looming curiosity — it had a reported budget of $175 million, expensive given that no previous Anderson film has made over $100 million. Plus, there’s the mystery of why an Oscars-bound movie would entirely skirt the fall-festival circuit, bypassing premieres at Venice, TIFF, or Telluride to just open wide on September 26. What even is this movie? Well, it’s the most critically lauded film of the year.

In One Battle After Another , DiCaprio’s ex-revolutionary named Bob Ferguson

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