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One Battle After Another ★★★½

(M) 162 minutes

Normally I’m cautious about predicting how movies will land in the marketplace, but I’ll venture this much. Of the punters who head out over the weekend to see Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another , lured by the title and the poster showing Leonardo DiCaprio in a dressing gown holding a machine gun, a high proportion will emerge thoroughly confused.

One Battle After Another is Anderson’s version of an action movie the way the 2002’s Punch-Drunk Love was his version of an Adam Sandler comedy. But this time the stakes are much higher: the budget has been reported as $130 million USD or more, and the upshot is somehow both his most conventional movie and his oddest yet.

One thing it isn’t in any substantial way is an adap

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