Bret Easton Ellis is baffled by how popular \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d is given he thinks the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie is full \u201cliberal mustiness\u201d that makes the film feel dated.<\/p>\n
In the latest episode of \u201cThe Brett Easton Ellis Podcast,\u201d the author went on for a long time on the problems he has with the new Anderson film. Ellis, who is responsible for penning \u201cAmerican Psycho,\u201d \u201cLess Than Zero\u201d and more, has never shied away from a divisive movie take and his dislike of \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d is his latest.<\/p>\n
More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s kind of shocking to see these kind of accolades for \u2014 I\u2019m sorry, it\u2019s a not-very-good movie \u2014 because of it\u2019s political ideology,\u201d Ellis said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s so obvious that is what they\u2019re responding to, why it\u2019s considered a masterpiece, the greatest film of the decade, the greatest film ever made. Because it really aligns with this kind of leftist sensibility.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n He added later: \u201cThere\u2019s a liberal mustiness to this movie that already feels very dated by October 2025. Very dated. And it just doesn\u2019t read the room. You know, it reads a tiny corner of the room, but it does not read what is going on in America.\u201d<\/p>\n Ellis went on to clarify he is a fan of Anderson\u2019s other films \u2013 particularly 2007\u2019s \u201cThere Will Be Blood\u201d \u2013 but thinks this one misses the mark aside from some particularly striking cinematography.<\/p>\n The author is a well-known rabble-rouser in Hollywood and someone who has cultivated a number of feuds with his opinions and comments. A wide-ranging list includes stars like Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep alongside authors including David Foster Wallace.<\/p>\n \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a former revolutionary who is forced out of retirement when he and his daughter \u2013 played by Chase Infiniti \u2013 are hunted by Colonel Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn).<\/p>\n The post Bret Easton Ellis Dismisses \u2018One Battle After Another\u2019 for Reeking of \u2018Liberal Mustiness\u2019<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/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 ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bret Easton Ellis is baffled by how popular \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d is given he thinks the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie is full \u201cliberal mustiness\u201d that makes the film feel dated. In the latest episode of \u201cThe Brett Easton Ellis Podcast,\u201d the author went on for a long time on the problems he has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2077297,"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":[25173],"tags":[391897,23666,333476],"class_list":["post-2083232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bret-easton-ellis","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-paul-thomas-anderson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jimmy-Fallon-Hopes-Audience-Will-Come-to-Taping-for-Him.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083232","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=2083232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083233,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083232\/revisions\/2083233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2077297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n