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A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)
Not since Boogie Nights has Paul Thomas Anderson unleashed a film this frenetic. At times, the pace is so fevered it left my heart racing. Yet for all its incendiary energy, this may also be one of his most tender works. At its core is the complicated relationship between Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his daughter Willa (newcomer Infiniti), a portrait of the age-old generational divide that defines the human condition. Bob embodies the failed aspirations of a traumatized Gen X father, struggling to shield his perceptive Gen Z daughter, who sees the world with painful clarity. As a Gen X