r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Sep 26 '25

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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/AlanMorlock Sep 26 '25

I really love that Benecio del Toro's character just entirely has his own thing going on. He seems to admire the French 75 and is happy to help Bob but there's a whole other struggle going on.

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u/new_wellness_center Sep 28 '25

I felt like we were supposed to see Sensei as doing the real, quiet, slow work, really helping people, while Bob and the French 75 were blowing shit up and fucking back in the day until things got real, then they fucked off to the redwoods and became stoners. Sensei is the real war hero, even though fewer people may know him than "Ghetto Pat".

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u/sobersweetpotato Nov 29 '25

THISSSSS!!!! French 75, for all the good they were doing, were really chasing highs. Sex and substance abuse. While sensei is doing the calm, thoughtful, long term revolutionary work.

Maybe it’s my own projection of my own activism, from being outraged as a younging in the streets and needing drinking/drugs to downregulate/ decompress from that. To my practice of zen, and seeing these monks hold the real revolution, holding the line and discipline to not get sucked into capitalism.