{"id":214965,"date":"2025-10-10T19:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214965\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:04:07","slug":"bret-easton-ellis-slams-one-battle-after-another-praise-liberal-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214965\/","title":{"rendered":"Bret Easton Ellis Slams ‘One Battle After Another’ Praise, Liberal Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cAmerican Psycho\u201d author Bret Easton Ellis<\/a> is calling out the acclaimed critical response to Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s \u201cOne Battle After Another<\/a>,\u201d which is the highest-rated film of 2025 on Metacritic<\/a> so far with a 95 score. While Ellis is a big fan of Anderson (he said \u201cThere Will Be Blood\u201d is \u201cmaybe the best film of this century,\u201d for example), the author claimed critics have heaped praise on \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d because the film\u2019s politics align with the left. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s kind of shocking to see these kind of accolades for \u2014 I\u2019m sorry, it\u2019s not a very good movie \u2014 because of its political ideology, and it\u2019s so obvious that\u2019s what they\u2019re responding to,\u201d Ellis said on \u201cThe Bret Easton Ellis Podcast\u201d<\/a> (via MovieMaker<\/a>) about the critical reaction to Anderson\u2019s latest. \u201cWhy it\u2019s considered a masterpiece, the greatest film of the decade, the greatest film ever made [is] because it really aligns with this kind of leftist sensibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEllis predicted the movie will soon be seen as \u201ca kind of musty relic of the post-Kamala Harris era \u2014 that thing everyone gathers around and pretends is so fantastic and so great when it really isn\u2019t, just to make a point\u2026 There\u2019s a liberal mustiness to this movie that already feels very dated by October 2025. Very dated. And it just doesn\u2019t read the room. You know, it reads a tiny corner of the room, but it does not read what is going on in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tResponding to one film critic who called \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d an \u201cimportant\u201d movie, Ellise responded: \u201cNo, it is not. It has really not read the room. It has not read the room at all about what\u2019s going on in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLoosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon\u2019s \u201cVineland,\u201d \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed up revolutionary who is forced to come out of hiding when an old enemy takes an interest in locating his daughter (breakout newcomer Chase Infiniti). The cast includes Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor, all of whom have Oscar buzz in addition to DiCaprio, Infiniti and Anderson amid the rave reviews.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety\u2019s Owen Gleiberman raved about the film in his review<\/a>, calling it a \u201cmesmerizing vision of a police-state America.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u2018One Battle After Another\u2019 is a movie that taps into the fierce urgency of now; it gives you a chill that\u2019s also a wake-up call\u2026 while it speaks with a big vision to the danger and anxiety of our moment, it\u2019s also a drama that\u2019s totally grounded and relatable,\u201d Gleiberman wrote. \u201c\u2018One Battle After Another\u2019 is a vision of a society in captivity, but it\u2019s a movie that never loses the pulse of its humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSince opening in theaters on Sept. 26, \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d has earned $114 million and counting at the worldwide box office. It is the first film directed by Anderson to cross the $100 million benchmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAmerican Psycho\u201d author Bret Easton Ellis is calling out the acclaimed critical response to Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s \u201cOne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[14317,88,89051],"class_list":["post-214965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bret-easton-ellis","tag-entertainment","tag-one-battle-after-another"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}