One Battle After Another. 2025. USA. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Inspired by the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, Benicio del Toro. DCP courtesy Warner Brothers. 161 min.
Bob Ferguson is: a former revolutionary with the French 75; a self-described “drug and alcohol lover”; a single father to 16-year-old Willa (Chase Infiniti); and, above all, a classic cinematic buffoon who has righteousness on his side—but not much else. Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio, in a brilliantly comic, tender performance) is on the run, pursued by his past—embodied by the vindictive Col. Stephen J. Lockjaw (an amazing Sean Penn)—while chasing after his own daughter as she grows up and is drawn into the precarious world he once inhabited. DiCaprio and Infiniti are supported by a volcanic Teyana Taylor, as Willa’s MIA mother Perfidia Beverly Hills, and Benicio del Toro, as the calm, centered Sensei Sergio St. Carlos. and Anderson drops these characters into an epic story that sprawls across California and its unique alchemy of conspiracy and independence. The result is one of the best films of the year.
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