One Battle After Another Proves Something We Always Suspected About Leonardo DiCaprio

This article contains spoilers for "One Battle After Another."

Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another," while loosely adapted from Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland," weaves its fiercely political fervor within a decades-spanning story about a father who realizes he's just not a young man anymore. This certainly applies to Anderson in some respects, as his most recent body of work shows a clear evolution from the 27 year-old who made "Boogie Nights." There's a thread between PTA and Leonardo DiCaprio, with both former up-and-comers now embodying roles as mentor figures.

"One Battle After Another" is a girl dad movie through and through. In the case of Bob Ferguson (DiCaprio), the former munitions expert of the revolutionary group known as the French 75, that means making a b