#one-battle-after-another

#one-battle-after-another

Paul Thomas Anderson's politically charged action thriller One Battle After Another leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, securing 14 nominations Tuesday including acting nods for five of its cast. Ryan Coogler's blues-steeped vampire epic Sinners is close behind with 13 nominations for Britain's equivalent of the Oscars, while Chloe Zhao's Shakespearean family tragedy Hamnet and Josh Safdie's ping-pong odyssey Marty Supreme have 11 apiece.

To quote Teyana Taylor's own song "WTP": "I believe that there's a big future out there with a lot of beautiful things." Oh, like winning a nationally televised acting award? Taylor won Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for her work in One Battle After Another at this year's Golden Globe awards, making her the presumptive front-runner at this year's Oscars.

Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" scored a leading nine nominations to the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Monday, adding to the Oscar favorite's momentum and handing Warner Bros. a victory amid Netflix's acquisition deal. In nominations announced from Beverly Hills, California, "One Battle After Another" landed nods for its cast-Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, and Chase Infiniti-and for Anderson's screenplay and direction.

I didn't expect this, actually, Anderson said on stage. I started to think I didn't know what was going on.

Regina Hall's inherent Regina Hall-ness - her magnetic fusion of poise and charisma - never shows in One Battle After Another. Instead of that usual charm, Hall is sober-minded and serious. As Deandra, a guerilla involved with a revolutionary sect called the French 75, she's waging war against oppression, whether that's militarized police, migrant detention camps, Christmas-worshipping white nationalists, or fascism at large.

If the experience of watching One Battle is so propulsive that you leave the theater feeling like you haven't taken a breath in hours, Vineland is far more digressive, switching genres by the page, with a plot that's more varied than the relatively simple man-tries-to-rescue-daughter story of One Battle. For one thing, Vineland has significant supernatural elements, including the existence of a class of person called a Thanatoid-souls caught between life and death.