One Battle After Another: here’s what the critics are saying about Leonardo DiCaprio’s new movie

The stakes are high for Paul Thomas Anderson’s big-budget new counter-cultural caper , but so are the expectations.

And so, we’re happy to report, is the Rotten Tomatoes score.

The critics’ reviews are in, and the early word is universally positive. It’s five stars almost across the board.

The director’s tenth film in a career without a single dud, it’s loosely adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel and boasts Leonardo DiCaprio as an addled revolutionary trying to keep himself together and his teenage daughter (Chase Infiniti) close as the US military and a shady cabal close in.

Sean Penn is doing things few actors have done before – in the best way – while Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor light up the movie as members of an insurgency movement with powerful contemporary reso