Source: Radio New Zealand
Best Oscar Contender/Best Movie of the Year
One Battle After Another
Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s career-long evocation of what he loves about the movies of the 1970s reaches new heights with this fist-pumpingly righteous call to action that reminds us that films actually used to, you know, be about stuff.
As a stoned former radical forced out of hiding when his daughter (Chase Infiniti in the most star-making role of the past decade) is targeted by a military psycho (Sean Penn, channelling Elmer Fudd into a nefarious embodiment of American political hypocrisy), Leonardo DiCaprio gives one of his liveliest ever performances.
Part of the film’s appeal is how difficult it is to boil it down into one thing, but I saw a patriotic, marvellously chaotic ode to the spirit of rebellion – Dominic Corry
Chase Infiniti in One Battle After Another.
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