One Battle After Another movie review: Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson may have taken inspiration from a novel set in the 1980s and finished filming before Donald Trump was handed over the reins of the free world for a second time. But rarely has a movie been as of the moment, by the moment and for the moment as One Battle After Another.

Or, as perceptive about the transience of it all.

Its “revolutionaries”, led by Perfidia (a magnetic Teyana Taylor), who sneak in with heavy artillery to free immigrants imprisoned at the Mexican border, call themselves the ‘French 75’. The name could stand in both for a rapid-fire field gun that helped change the course of WWI for the Allied Powers; or for the cocktail drink served in that evergreen WWII film Casablanca. If Perfidia and her gang, i

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