Some movies arrive too late—please god let me never sit through another whose gimmicky hook is COVID shutdown—while others can end up more timely than its makers could have possibly imagined. You have to wonder just what emotions between excitement and panic are currently being experienced by the people behind One Battle After Another, which boasts considerable star power and is getting an aggressive push for a non-franchise release from Warner Brothers. It’s also the most action-oriented (as well as expensive) film from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson to date, by far. I did not much like his last couple features (Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza), but “PTA” is a singularly adventurous American filmmaker whose path is utterly unpredictable, and whose movies can divide even his most devo

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