Love, Chaos, and Revolutionary Spirit Drive 'One Battle After Another'

Paul Thomas Anderson delivers a chaotic, funny, and surprisingly heartfelt portrait of America’s struggles through the eyes of a bumbling revolutionary and his daughter.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson in “One Battle After Another.” Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film One Battle After Another, released Friday, is chaotic, suspenseful, goofy, funny — and deeply relevant. It’s a wild but incisive look at America, grappling with its long struggle against racial injustice and the angels and demons that still haunt a nation striving to live up to its founding ideals.