This year has been packed with sequels, remakes and fresh new reels, from “Superman” and “28 Years Later” to an impressionistic Latvian animation about a cat.

One Battle After Another

The title of Leonardo DiCaprio’s latest movie is “no word of a lie”, said Alex Godfrey in Empire . “ One Battle After Another ” starts with an attack and “then barely lets up at all”. DiCaprio plays Bob, a dishevelled revolutionary “lost in a weed fug amid kidnappings and breakouts and car chases and a sensei played by Benicio Del Toro”. Dressed in a bathrobe, Bob races around trying to rescue his kidnapped teenage daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti).

Director Paul Thomas Anderson “has a lot to say – but never with a sledgehammer, never on a soapbox, and never to the detriment of entertainment”. He has

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