By Dolores Quintana

One Battle After Another is modern retro with the heat, 70s-style car chases, with vital emotional heft and characterization. Layers upon layers of references with the sexual charge that comes from danger and rebellion, and then it evolves.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest has all of the stellar filmmaking and style that the director is celebrated for, but I would say that with this film, he has made his blockbuster movie. It’s an intelligent and literate blockbuster, but it has all of the excitement and thrills that you would expect in a summer action film.

We’re talking about Friedkin and Yates’ style car chases with desperate revolutionaries fleeing the law. Get that popcorn out because it is the excitement and thrills that cinema fans adore.

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