film review

Leonardo DiCaprio plays the oft-useless Pat/Bob, a burnout in more ways than one.

One Battle After Another

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Written by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the novel Vineland by Thomas Pyncon

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor and Sean Penn

Classification 14A; 162 minutes

Opens in theatres Sept. 26

Critic’s Pick

Midway through One Battle After Another , director Paul Thomas Anderson’s exhilarating, hilarious and galvanizing new epic, a gone-to-pot revolutionary named Bob Ferguson (a.k.a. Ghetto Pat, a.k.a. the munitions expert of a once-feared militia called the French 75), places a desperate phone call to one of his old comrades, seeking a rendezvous point where he can reunite with his on-the-run daughter.

“What time is

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