One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie (and the first of his set in the present day since 2002's Punch Drunk Love), takes place, well, now. It drops the viewer directly into a tumultuous, politically charged landscape and tackles some difficult subject matter. Yet, somehow, it doesn't feel that heavy. In fact, it's the best movie experience I've had in a movie theater all year.

Leonardo DiCaprio leads the movie as Bob Ferguson, a washed-up revolutionary and former member of the gang known as the French 75. He ditches explosives for diapers once his girlfriend and fellow revolutionary Perfidia (Teyana Taylor) gives birth. And when she decides to continue her life of crime, Bob and his daughter Charlene go on the run and live under the radar. And there they stay until th

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