🎬 #186 It's Easy.
Go seek out this film in a cinema near you and see it at least a couple of times.
Happy viewing,
Bry
FILM: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
2025 Dir Paul Thomas Anderson
2 hrs 41 mins
![Embargo Lifts on 'One Battle After Another'; Major Oscar Contender — Raves Keep Coming [Updated] — World of Reel](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iPkv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08c5cf02-3f1b-4f15-95b4-3bd9161dface_1290x592.jpeg "Embargo Lifts on 'One Battle After Another'; Major Oscar Contender — Raves Keep Coming [Updated] — World of Reel")
People who draw us in aren’t trying to be anyone, but themselves.
They are them, right down to the core.
Same for great characters, great villains. They’re not pleasing anyone. They act as their essential nature dictates.
Same for great films - they’re pure of intent and being. They’re not trying to be anything but what they already are. Everything is in alignment or has been wrangled that way - because everyone involved is going ‘the way,’ the way the film has dictated.
That’s One Battle After Another.
You all already know everything you need to about this film.
It’s up there with Paul Thomas Anderson’s best.
It’s filled with propulsive action.
Lots of emotion.
Lots of laughs.
The score is incredible.
It’s tense and sexy and cool, without trying to be.
So once you stop reading this, go out into a cinema to see it. And then see it again.
*Available in cinemas in the US and UK
Fact: Paul Thomas Anderson wanted Leonardo DiCaprio to play Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights. He passed to do Titanic instead.