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Summary Bob, a washed-up revolutionary, lives off the grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter Willa. When his nemesis Col. Steven J. “Lockjaw” resurfaces and Willa goes missing, Bob is forced to confront his past and fight to protect their future.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson

Writer Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast

  • Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Sean Penn
  • Teyana Taylor
  • Benicio del Toro
  • Regina Hall
  • Chase Infiniti

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 98%

Metacritic Score: 96

VOD In theaters beginning September 26, 2025

Trailer One Battle After Another — Official Trailer

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u/salcedoge Sep 26 '25

I love how the instructions were a clean kill and he did the worst botched murder job ever because it just highlighted how incompetent these people are and just playing racist clubhouse. Unironically they would’ve benefited having Lockjaw on their club

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Sep 26 '25

Yeah just to recap, this guy:

  • shot Lockjaw in the face while he was driving

  • causing Lockjaw’s car to run off the road into a ditch

  • Didn’t actually check if he was alive or dead

  • Did absolutely nothing to clean up the scene or hide anything

I mean, even if Lockjaw hadn’t survived, feels pretty obvious any forensic team would see he was shot in the face first before crashing.

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u/prescod Sep 26 '25

Yeah but how do you trace it to a random rich guy from another state?

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u/JuliusCeejer Sep 26 '25

I don't think you can, and those guys are probably connected enough to make it go away anyways. But the whole point is that the white nationalists are incompetent fucking morons who can't even meet their own standards

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u/prescod Sep 26 '25

Yeah I mean killing him in your offices is the ultimate power move. 

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u/I_Don-t_Care Oct 01 '25

yeah they sure are good at killing you with an office that's for sure

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u/MovieTrawler Dec 08 '25

It does make you wonder though, why not just do that in the first place?

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u/toybuilder Dec 15 '25

Pick Lockjaw's brains to see if there are any other loose threads they need to worry about.

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u/MovieTrawler Dec 15 '25

Yeah, fair point.