Review: P.T. Anderson's Glorious "One Battle After Another"

by Eric Blume
If you’re a regular site reader, you’ve probably been following all the film blogs discussing the new Paul Thomas Anderson epic, One Battle After Another. So we don’t need to discuss plot or beat around the bush…the question is: Does it really deliver like everyone has been saying? I remember being so excited before seeing Licorice Pizza -- it too was heralded by early viewers -- only to find it contrived and uninvolving in the cinema. My vote, this time, is an unqualified yes! PTA is a great filmmaker: ideologically ambitious, profoundly humanistic, and daringly assured technically. Anderson delivers with depth and panache here in this new contemporary, highly political film...