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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025) – AFI Movie Club

A Best Picture Academy Award-winner from director Paul Thomas Anderson – with stunning cinematography by Michael Bauman (AFI Class of 1992), ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025) was also honored with an AFI AWARD, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official rationale, “ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER serves as a rallying cry for fearless originality in American film. Paul Thomas Anderson’s tale for our times pulses with action, explodes with comedy and all on an epic scale. At its core, though, it is an ode to the bond of family – brought to brilliant life by cinema’s supernova, Leonardo DiCaprio. And all hail the stellar supporting cast of Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor and the star-making arrival of Chase Infiniti. ¡Viva la revolución!”