One Battle After Another

October 15, 2025 00:03:23
One Battle After Another
Flicks with The Film Snob
One Battle After Another

Oct 15 2025 | 00:03:23

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Show Notes

We’re living in a time when the news is stranger than fiction. What should filmmakers do in such times? Paul Thomas Anderson, one of our best film directors, has chosen to face this moment by combining the action film with satire. The result is his latest movie, One Battle After Another. In a sort of alternate version of recent history, a revolutionary group called “The French 75” breaks into an immigrant detention camp, freeing all the prisoners. One of the revolutionaries, a black woman calling herself Perfidia Beverly Hills, and played by Teyana Taylor, enlists a comrade named Ghetto Pat,…

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