One Battle After Another
The 2024 Best Picture winner Anora was an unlikely choice for me but I can't deny it was a very good film and so onto the next BP winner for 2025 which was One Battle After Another . This was Paul Thomas Anderson's third film in ten years and would be the big award winner that year as he brought together a talented cast and crew to tell a very topical but also controversial story. Split into two parts, One Battle sees a revolutionary couple in America forced into going their separate ways when Teyana Taylor's character is arrested. Leonardo DiCaprio is left with their baby and has to go on the run when his former lover sells everyone out, but the past catches up with him many years later. I've only seen a couple of Anderson's films and this is certainly his most action-packed experience to date with plenty of twists and turns over the course of a rather long (I watched in two parts) 162 minutes. But the performances, Johnny Greenwood's score and visuals never di...
