“One Battle After Another” wants a revolution.

What’s more, the movie wants you to want one, too.

The film opens with scenes of an immigrant detention center near the U.S.-Mexico border. The film’s protagonists, however, aren’t there. Not yet. The characters the film follows (and hopes we pull for) are members of a far-left revolutionary group called “The French 75.” They’re planning – as you might guess – to raid the center and free the immigrants there.

The film’s leading man, Bob Ferguson, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is all in. Called “Rocketman” by the radicals, Ferguson supplies the flashy stuff – the distracting pyrotechnics that give the rest of the group the opportunity to strike.

And strike they do. At the migration center, first, but then at banks, government offices, and wh

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