One Battle After Another grossed $3.1 million in preview screenings this Thursday and is projected to earn approximately $22.4 million in the United States and $48.5 million worldwide. Those aren't terrible numbers for a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, or for a relatively obscure literary adaptation that's expected to compete for Oscars. Anderson's last feature, Licorice Pizza, grossed only around $350,000 in its opening weekend, and his highest-grossing film to date, There Will Be Blood, grossed a total of $77 million. But One Battle After Another is so much more than a movie for PTA fans or awards watchers.

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