One Battle After Another

“Might be the most enjoyable cinema experience this year”★★★★★ Evening Standard

Received ★★★★★ in The Guardian, The Irish Times, Financial Times, Evening Standard, Time Out, Empire, Telegraph and The Independent

Director Paul Thomas Anderson has pursued a career with plenty of surprises – from twisted romances like Punch-Drunk Love to Phantom Thread to epic sweeps of American history like There Will Be Blood and The Master – and little to connect them, except for each film being a high-watermark of modern filmmaking. In One Battle After Another he turns his singular eye to the American present and its descent into chaos.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars alongside Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor. Endorsed by Steven Spielberg as one of the most significant films of the year, it is an epic black comedy that follows a dissolved band of revolutionaries who reunite to recapture the kidnapped daughter of one of their own. Undoubtedly a contender for every award going, this is pure Paul Thomas Anderson: detailed yet wild, hilarious yet cuttingly insightful.