“American Psycho” author Bret Easton Ellis is calling out the acclaimed critical response to Paul Thomas Anderson’s “ One Battle After Another ,” which is the highest-rated film of 2025 on Metacritic so far with a 95 score. While Ellis is a big fan of Anderson (he said “There Will Be Blood” is “maybe the best film of this century,” for example), the author claimed critics have heaped praise on “One Battle After Another” because the film’s politics align with the left.

“It’s kind of shocking to see these kind of accolades for — I’m sorry, it’s not a very good movie — because of its political ideology, and it’s so obvious that’s what they’re responding to,” Ellis said on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” (via MovieMaker ) about the critical reaction to Anderson’s latest. “Why it’s c

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