The only thing predictable about writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is the unpredictable nature of the movies he chooses to make. The same man has made films featuring the porn industry, 19th-century oil drilling, a veiled story about Scientology, and a '70s-set rom-com . His new film, One Battle After Another , features another hard left turn, this time into the world of revolutionaries that just might be a very timely political critique.

The sprawling film begins in an incendiary manner, with Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), his romantic partner Perfidia (Teyana Taylor), and other members of a group called the French 75 raiding an immigration detention camp in the U.S., overwhelming the small military presence and freeing detainees. Perfidia has a charged encounter with Colonel Stev

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