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One Battle After Another (2025)

Someone needs to tell Paul Thomas Anderson "no" a bit more often because this could have been a beautiful Pynchon adaptation à la Inherent Vice but they strayed too far from the source, forgot to cut the first awful 30 minutes, and cast Leo instead of someone who can act.

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