At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo writes about Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (USA, 2025)! “With his newest, One Battle After Another, Anderson is back on form. Not that he ever truly left, but after a couple of divisive titles like Licorice Pizza and Inherent Vice (even though I personally love both), he’s operating at peak levels once again. In this one, Anderson turns his sharp eye and storytelling chops at far-right societal and governmental forces, as well as an incendiary look at leftist revolutionary movements in a very loose reimagining of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. All of this is done in one of the most populist, easily digestible films that PTA has ever produced. It’s brash, it’s explosive, it’s one of his most shriekingly funny projects, and it wears its heart on its sleeve. One Battle After Another‘s nearly three-hour runtime feels, as a result, like barely half that. But there’s real depth underneath that’s never undercut by the film’s lighter moments, and it’s in fact complemented and amplified by them.”

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