If you’ll allow us to spoil the ending to one of this year’s leading Best Picture contenders for just a second, One Battle After Another ends with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Bob lying back on his couch, joint in mouth, after proudly waving his teenage daughter off as she heads out to join an anti police brutality protest 3 hours away.

It’s one of the more hopeful endings to the many films about parenting that have decorated the box office this year, but in the preceding two hours and 40 minutes, Paul Thomas Anderson certainly joins other writers and directors of 2025 films in their interrogation of the pitfalls of modern parenthood.

It’s only fitting then that One Battle After Another topped the 2026 Golden Globes nominations with nods in nine categories, but it’s far from the only film about p

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