Paul Thomas Anderson’s 10th feature film, “One Battle After Another,” hits theaters this week, some 29 years after his debut with “Hard Eight” in 1996. Each of his films could be considered a masterpiece to varying degrees, delving into the human condition, the history of this country and even the nature of creative practice via tales that span the breadth of the 20th century, and now with his latest film, beyond.
“One Battle After Another” is a politically revolutionary piece about what we pass on and the family values that shape our realities. Inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Vineland,” this is Anderson’s second adaption of a Pynchon novel, following 2014’s “Inherent Vice.”
If you want to refresh yourself with Anderson’s oeuvre — which opens up new layers of itself upon every rewatc