One Battle After Another

One Battle After Another Review: Comedy, Chaos, And Counterculture Collide

There’s a peculiar kind of clarity that comes through chaos, and One Battle After Another seems to know this innately. Paul Thomas Anderson, never one to tiptoe around the edges of genre, swings for something loose-limbed and gloriously off-kilter here — a film as unpredictable as a live wire, with the smirk of a trickster and the soul of a bruised idealist. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, a man well past his prime and possibly his usefulness, holed up in a creaking farmhouse with a head full of weed smoke and half-forgotten political dogma. He’s not exactly hiding — it | Click Here...