This year’s Best Picture Oscar winner has arrived on Amazon Prime for streaming. One Battle After Another is an action thriller penned, produced, and helmed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film draws loose inspiration from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland.
The cast features Leonardo DiCaprio alongside Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti making her film debut. According to the film‘s synopsis: “Bob is a washed-up revolutionary who lives in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces and Willa goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her as both father and daughter battle the consequences of their pasts.”
The movie has garnered a remarkable 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics reaching consensus: “An epic screwball adventure teeming with awe-inspiring action set pieces, One Battle After Another is Paul Thomas Anderson’s most entertaining film yet, while also one of his most thematically rich.”
Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian wrote in his review: “One Battle After Another is at once serious and unserious, exciting and baffling, a tonal fusion sending that crazy fizz across the VistaVision screen — an acquired taste, yes, but addictive.
“The title itself hints at an unending culture war presented as a crazily extreme action movie with superbly managed car chases and a final, dreamlike and hypnotic succession of three cars through the undulating hills. And is the central paternity crisis triangle an image for an ownership dispute around the American melting-pot dream?”
Meanwhile, Robbie Collin of the Telegraph offered equally glowing praise: “DiCaprio also astounds – frazzled and absurd yet also sweet and even noble, he evokes Jack Nicholson in his prime. (Update your Best Lead and Supporting Actor Oscar predictions now.)”
Collin further added: “There’s something deeply 1970s Hollywood, too, about the level of confidence Anderson has in his audience. For more than two-and-a-half hours, he trusts us to cling on all the way up to the climactic pursuit, set on a bumpy stretch of desert road, with shots to make your stomach levitate. It’s a roller-coaster ending to a film that has you disembarking shaky and elated, and ready to stagger right back into the queue.”
Clarisse Loughrey from the Independent likewise gave the film a five-star rating, observing: “This is, in short, Anderson’s action epic. It opens with the blistering, capital “C” Cinema image of Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor, magnificent in every scene she inhabits) as she struts into an immigration detention centre -righteous fury in her muscles, looking like she stands about 12 feet tall -declaring to a humiliated Colonel Steven J Lockjaw (Sean Penn), “this is an announcement of a motherf***ing revolution.”
The six-time Oscar-winning production has earned the label of “masterpiece” from numerous audience members. A Rotten Tomatoes reviewer commented: “Highly recommended this movie, it is a masterpiece.”
One Battle After Another can currently be viewed on Amazon Prime, reports the Express.
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