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86 they all agreed 6 critics · 80 to 90

One Battle After Another

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How they landed
they all agreed6 critics, 80 to 90
What they said
Is a timeless story of resistance, one that playfully weaves together influences as broad-reaching as the true story of Weather Underground and cinematic depictions of rebellion, but it's also a remarkably propulsive, fun, and eventually moving piece of work about the human beings caught up in the chaotic machine.Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com · we gave it 90
Film
Paul Thomas Anderson · 2025 · United States

The guide2 of 7 came up

very mild · mild · moderate · strong · very strong — the board’s own five words, in its own order
Violence
Sex and nudity
Swearing
Drink and drugs
Upsetting
Offensive
Hard to sit through

Certificate reasons from the British Board of Film Classification, classified 24/09/2025. Their words: Strong language, sex references, violence, references to sexual violence. We could not read the certificate itself off their page, so we do not print one.

All 6 reviews

Taps into the fierce urgency of now; it gives you a chill that's also a wake-up call.

Owen Gleiberman, Variety · quoted in Wikipedia, original not read by us · FP000074
86we gave it

Is a timeless story of resistance, one that playfully weaves together influences as broad-reaching as the true story of Weather Underground and cinematic depictions of rebellion, but it's also a remarkably propulsive, fun, and eventually moving piece of work about the human beings caught up in the chaotic machine.

Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com · quoted in Wikipedia, original not read by us · FP000075
90we gave it

A father-daughter epic, with an unusually personal gush of feeling. You can count on one hand the number of scenes that Bob and Willa share, but their connection – a swirl of protectiveness, exasperation, and fiercely unconditional love – binds the movie and its madly whirling parts together.

Justin Chang, The New Yorker · quoted in Wikipedia, original not read by us · FP000076
88we gave it

Searing indictment of this particular moment in American history.

Katie Walsh, Chicago Tribune · quoted in Wikipedia, original not read by us · FP000077
84we gave it

A furious film, a richly engaging and persuasive polemic.

Richard Lawson, The Hollywood Reporter · quoted in Wikipedia, original not read by us · FP000078
85we gave it

Magnetically self-possessed newcomer/instant movie star Chase Infiniti, whose performance inspires a strange kind of secondhand pride.

David Ehrlich, IndieWire · quoted in Wikipedia, original not read by us · FP000079
80we gave it

Who wrote about this filmgo read them

Owen GleibermanVarietyWhere we read it
Brian TallericoRogerEbert.comWhere we read it
Justin ChangThe New YorkerWhere we read it
Katie WalshChicago TribuneWhere we read it
Richard LawsonThe Hollywood ReporterWhere we read it
David EhrlichIndieWireWhere we read it

What the readers worked outwe link the room and never a person in it · nothing here moves the score

r/CinephilesClub, a reassessment months after releaseReddit

Worth reading because it is late. The six critics we counted all filed in release week and none scored it under 80. Given a few months, this room settles on really good, not quite great, and is careful about why: the performances and the direction hold, the highs do not reach the director's own best. It also does the thing a thread can do and a review cannot, which is correct itself in public when somebody claims the film was a late play for awards and gets told it was started twenty years ago.

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  1. FP000074Owen Gleiberman. Variety. One Battle After Another (2025). Quoted in Wikipedia, One Battle After Another. Read 2026-08-20. We scored it 86.Source
  2. FP000075Brian Tallerico. RogerEbert.com. One Battle After Another (2025). Quoted in Wikipedia, One Battle After Another. Read 2026-08-20. We scored it 90.Source
  3. FP000076Justin Chang. The New Yorker. One Battle After Another (2025). Quoted in Wikipedia, One Battle After Another. Read 2026-08-20. We scored it 88.Source
  4. FP000077Katie Walsh. Chicago Tribune. One Battle After Another (2025). Quoted in Wikipedia, One Battle After Another. Read 2026-08-20. We scored it 84.Source
  5. FP000078Richard Lawson. The Hollywood Reporter. One Battle After Another (2025). Quoted in Wikipedia, One Battle After Another. Read 2026-08-20. We scored it 85.Source
  6. FP000079David Ehrlich. IndieWire. One Battle After Another (2025). Quoted in Wikipedia, One Battle After Another. Read 2026-08-20. We scored it 80.Source