“One Battle After Another” is the latest film by Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights; There Will Be Blood), and it is neither too obtuse to understand nor is it boring. This latest Anderson work stylistically makes its point, without getting all up its own ass about said style. (I’m looking at you, Wes Anderson!) 

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It is also rather timely in its themes, with many recent events bleeding into the narrative serendipitously, despite the source material - the Thomas Pynchon novel "Vineland" - being over 30 years old.  With an impeccable cast, well-staged action, and a heavy dose of dark humor, "One Battle After Another" is a movie made for our current predicament, one more run on the flat circle of history. 

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Still, one sees this movie now and has to wonder: Why?

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