The Independent<\/em>\u2019s Clarisse Loughrey giving the film five stars.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThis is, in short, Anderson\u2019s action epic,\u201d wrote Loughrey. \u201cIt opens with the blistering, capital \u2018C\u2019 Cinema image of Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor, magnificent in every scene she inhabits) as she struts into an immigration detention centre \u2013righteous fury in her muscles, looking like she stands about 12 feet tall \u2013declaring to a humiliated Colonel Steven J Lockjaw (Sean Penn), \u2018this is an announcement of a motherf***ing revolution.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
She concluded: \u201cFor all of One Battle After Another<\/em>\u2019s formalist pleasures \u2013 its humour, its pace, its grandeur \u2013 what feels the most striking about it, in this apocalyptic now, is the hope that it chooses to leave us with. Every battle, out on the streets and inside hearts, will have been worth it one day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nz.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s new thriller One Battle After Another has topped the box office on its opening weekend, but analysts remain divided about whether the film will prove profitable. The film, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio as an aging revolutionary, has so far banked $22.4 million in the US. It also made another $26.1 million internationally, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2056059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[366356,342100,342101,23666,382517,333476,382518],"class_list":["post-2056058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-battle","tag-david-a-gross","tag-franchise-entertainment-research","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-louis-chilton","tag-paul-thomas-anderson","tag-the-independent"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Leonardo-DiCaprios-One-Battle-After-Another-tops-box-office-but.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2056059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}