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One Battle After Another

Paul Thomas Anderson · 2025 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Sixteen years after his revolutionary cell was broken, a burnt-out bomber hides in a sanctuary city raising a teenage daughter he has told her mother is dead, until the colonel who dismantled the group comes hunting the girl to bury his own past. Anderson folds the father-daughter core of Pynchon's Vineland into a chase picture about what one generation's radicalism leaves the next. It swept the 98th Academy Awards, Best Picture among six wins.

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