One Battle After Another is a masterpiece of the highest order from Paul Thomas Anderson – whose chameleonic like ability has seen his films earn a reputation as some of the best of the last decade – be they struggling oil barons in There Will Be Blood looking to make it rich; or a washed up cult believer in The Master trying to survive – he’s capable of keeping it fresh and this movie is no different; opening with a revolutionary takeover of an ICE-backed institution where the freedom fighters of the French 75 launch a liberation campaign. No real world politics is mentioned – there’s no direct stand in for MAGA; Trump or Obama the same way Eddington was a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic escalation in extremist politics; but it might as well be – it feels timely, there isn’t

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