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- Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: Paul Thomas Anderson has crafted a tale that is both timely and timeless. It works as political commentary, as an edge of your seat thriller, and as a story about family.
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: One Battle After Another is a good movie. It is unfortunate that it will die of overpraise.
- Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: Anderson has tended to look to the past during his career, but with One Battle After Another – which takes place over the course of 16 years or so – he speaks more to current times than anything he’s ever made.
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: One Battle After Another marks another memorable classic for Paul Thomas Anderson. Captivating, while easing his audience through his humor and investment of its characters, his latest won’t be forgotten anytime soon.
- Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: Timely and timeless, ‘One Battle After Another’ isn’t just a work of great art – it’s also a work of great fun
- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The cast is exceptional, DiCaprio in a greasy topknot not this much fun since his Quaalude-induced leglessness in “The Wolf of Wall Street” a dozen years ago…one of the year’s and Thomas Anderson’s best.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A triumph for Paul Thomas Anderson that blends thrilling action with heart. Leonardo DiCaprio gives a career-defining turn as a father doing his best to protect his daughter.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Brash, chaotic, full of bleak humor and bitter irony. With blockbuster vibes over an anarchic indie heart, it’s both earnest and winking. Outstanding in-flight entertainment for our societal freefall.
- Kristian Lin @
- Excerpt: Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest is subversive dadcore for our time.
- [New] | Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Victoria Luxford @ Clash
- Excerpt: In a year where power is questioned on a daily basis, the film’s themes will feel like they’ve been pulled straight from the headlines. Another highlight from an iconic filmmaker.
- [New] | Harrison Martin @ Flixfrog
- Excerpt: With a stellar cast and intriguing story, it’s no wonder One Battle After Another is a Best Picture nominee!
- Nell Minow @ moviemom.com
- Excerpt: It balances action, politics, metaphor, and satire, with heightened characters who are larger than life but still feel real and a knockout, urgently percussive score from Johnny Greenwood.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Anderson knows how to make a three-hour runtime entertaining and every second DiCaprio and Del Toro are on-screen together is a gift from God. [But it] is one very good film that might have been three great ones.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: ‘One Battle After Another’ is another masterwork from American auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, who turns his incisive storytelling toward contemporary America and uses it as a battle-bound backdrop for a story about fighting for what matters. Every single thing works.
- Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
- Jason Pirodsky @ The Prague Reporter
- Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Isto é um filme político. Um grito contra o ridículo e perigoso se tornou o mundo.
- Diego Salgado @ Sofilm [Spanish]
- Jeff Schaefer @ The Marquee Topic
- Excerpt: Paul Thomas Anderson teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, and Benicio Del Toro in One Battle After Another. A high water mark on the decorated director’s career, and one of the best films of the year.
- Katie Smith-Wong @ Flickfeast
- Excerpt: Overall, One Battle After Another is a heady combination of political satire, black comedy and action. With excellent cast performances across the board and intricately executed visuals, Anderson’s feature is sure to be among this year’s awards contenders.
- Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest masterpiece, feels like it was made expressly with the headlines of the last few months in mind. It also feels eerily prescient, showing us a twisted, fun-house mirror version of the depravity to which the United States will likely sink in the coming years under the hideous Trump regime.
- Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: A film that will be talked about, I hope, without causing too much controversy, and that ends perfectly, emphasising the nature of its central characters and leaving the viewer hopeful. “One Battle After Another” fascinated me.
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