Review: ‘One Battle After Another’ is an absolute masterpiece

Leonardo DiCaprio, the definition of an untouchable A-List movie star for close to three decades, has officially entered his loser era.

Since 2019, DiCaprio’s only roles have been a washed-up B-movie actor (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”), a nerdy scientist (“Don’t Look Up”), a useful galoot (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), and now, in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” a weed-smoking, bathrobe-wearing paranoiac.

Matching DiCaprio’s restless energy across a relentless 162 minutes, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” is the director’s most purely entertaining film to date, an alchemical mix of political intrigue, thrilling action, and giddy comedy, all undergirded by some of the most technically spectacular filmmaking in recent memory.

DiCaprio’s rural singl