"About two dozen movies have topped the box office in 2025, and it's safe to say that Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is the only one that depicts its protagonists freeing arrested immigrants from detention centers. The movie doesn't face much competition for the title of most political weekend-topper of the year; superhero pictures such as Captain America: Brave New World perpetually tell the most anodyne stories possible, even when they're supposedly about Washington-based conspiracies;"
"The movie doesn't face much competition for the title of most political weekend-topper of the year; superhero pictures such as Captain America: Brave New World perpetually tell the most anodyne stories possible, even when they're supposedly about Washington-based conspiracies; Sinners conceals some of its bigger ideas within a crime-and-horror vampire story; even Mickey 17, another riskily expensive Warner Bros movie from a beloved auteur with political overtones, has genre-movie trappings."
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another centers on leftist radicals who free detained immigrants and confront an authoritarian movement within the U.S. government. The film follows Bob Ferguson and his daughter Willa living under assumed names in the fictional sanctuary city of Baktan Cross after the dissolution of their revolutionary group, the French 75. Bob's partner Perfidia and the group's past confrontations with figures like Colonel Lockjaw frame a narrative of underground resistance. The film has provoked controversy, with rightwing pundits urging delay after the Charlie Kirk shooting and some viewers calling the film politically incendiary. The film's thorny moral ambiguities and bold political stance distinguish it from other 2025 box-office hits.
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