“One Battle After Another” will soon become available to watch at home. The Paul Thomas Anderson movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio will debut on HBO Max on Dec. 19.
Starring DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall, Benicio del Toro and Chase Infiniti, “One Battle After Another” follows a washed-up revolutionary who must save his teenage daughter after she’s kidnapped by a merciless army officer. The film is loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland.”
After premiering on Sept. 26, “One Battle After Another” received huge critical praise for its story, direction and performances. It’s expected to be a major Oscar frontrunner at next year’s awards show and recently picked up an industry-leading 9 nominations at the Golden Globes, including best picture.
In Variety’s review, chief film critic Owen Gleiberman called “One Battle After Another” a “mesmerizing vision of a police-state America” and praised Anderson for delivering “the kind of twists and turns that feed the audience, giving us the childlike sensation that we have no idea what’s coming next.”
Gleiberman went on to name “One Battle” the best movie of 2025, writing: “Paul Thomas Anderson’s greatest film since ‘Boogie Nights’ is a dystopian adventure of hair-raising relevance and haunting desperation. It’s at once a political thriller, a bravura chase movie, a world-turned-upside-down satire, a movingly fraught father-daughter love story — and, more than that, a movie that plants us in the paranoid cave of anxiety that is life in an autocratic society, in this case one that uncannily mirrors what’s happening to our own Disunited States.”
“One Battle After Another” has earned $204 million worldwide at the box office, making it the highest-grossing movie of Anderson’s directorial career.
