For those of us who were already cinephiles when Paul Thomas Anderson burst onto the scene with his dynamic breakthrough Boogie Nights , it’s hard to believe the former directing wunderkind (he was only 27 years old when Boogie Nights was released) has now been making films for 30 years.

His latest production, 2025’s One Battle After Another , makes a fitting backdrop for a look at Anderson’s career. It tells the story of a former revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio) turned paranoid pothead single dad who is forced to fight for his daughter after she’s targeted by a high-ranking member of the U.S. military. From literal bomb thrower to bewildered, bumbling father ... from boy genius to middle-aged statesman of cinema. Time has a way of changing things, huh?

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