One Battle After Another: One of the Year's Best?

About this episode

The hosts discuss the film 'One Battle After Another' and analyze its strengths, weaknesses, and political messages.

This week we watched "One Battle After Another" and with a rare new film from Paul Thomas Anderson, the excitement was definitely high. Braden was thrilled just to see PTA behind the camera again, while Micah wasn’t impressed by the opening and felt it dragged the rest of the movie down. We break down where we feel the film struggles, where it's still great, and what (if anything) it’s actually trying to say politically. From expectations to execution, we dig into the filmmaking, the messaging, and whether this one earns all the buzz.

People in this episode

Hosts: Braden, Micah

Topics covered

• film review
• Paul Thomas Anderson
• political messaging
• filmmaking
• movie expectations
• film struggles

Keywords

• One Battle After Another
• Paul Thomas Anderson
• film review
• political messaging
• movie analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: One Battle After Another

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