Over the past couple of months, I’ve been on a moviegoing marathon. I took in as much as I could out of the fall festivals, new releases, and, of course, some spooky season classics . But it wasn’t until seeing Paul Thomas Anderson 's One Battle After Another that I got the movie high I’m always chasing.

The film—which I’ve now seen multiple times, in multiple formats (apologies for being that guy!)—is a reminder of what big blockbusters are capable of. Once Battle After Another has several exhilarating chase sequences and stellar movie-star performances, sure. It’s also a story about complicated people that doesn’t shy away from the horrors happening outside the movie theater. I laughed, I cried, I gasped, and I prayed that AMC would recut the Nicole Kidman ad to include clips

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