{"id":143730,"date":"2025-09-17T17:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143730\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:25:07","slug":"review-one-battle-after-another-is-a-thrilling-funny-and-deeply-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143730\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: One Battle After Another Is a Thrilling, Funny, and Deeply Moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">I went into One Battle After Another with high expectations. It\u2019s hard not to: The new feature is by Paul Thomas Anderson, maybe the only filmmaker working today whose material is of such a consistently high quality that even his lesser movies would be anyone else\u2019s best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">What I didn\u2019t expect was to be so thoroughly moved by Anderson\u2019s saga of American activists. Yes, it\u2019s heart-poundingly thrilling and includes one of the greatest car chases I\u2019ve ever seen on screen. It\u2019s also a whip-smart satire with Leonardo DiCaprio running around in a bathrobe, stoned out of his mind. And at its core, it\u2019s most surprisingly a film about the love between a father and a daughter and the need to fight for a better future. I left with tears in my eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I went into One Battle After Another with high expectations. It\u2019s hard not to: The new feature is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[47725,84,776,5490,3462,2343,96,655,2839,11349,66410,43618,55459,56,54,55,658,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-143730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-beverly-hills","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-career","12":"tag-christmas","13":"tag-donald-john-trump","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-lifestyle","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-pursuits","18":"tag-screentime","19":"tag-thomas-pynchon","20":"tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom","24":"tag-women","25":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}