Paul Thomas Anderson’s magnificent new movie “One Battle After Another” arrived in theaters last week, but it was made in the America that existed before Donald Trump’s return. Watching it, I kept wondering if such a forthrightly anti-fascist film could be produced in Hollywood today.

Michelle Goldberg

The New York Times

Opinion

A political thriller shot through with absurdist humor, the movie has several scenes that might have seemed imaginatively dystopian when they were shot, but now look like news outtakes. Its villain, a military officer named Steven Lockjaw, is an anti-immigrant fanatic who at one point lays siege to a sanctuary city under the dishonest pretext of fighting cartels. The movie posits a white nationalist cabal at the highest levels of the American establishment — ca

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