Sean Penn attends a special screening of "One Battle After Another" at the Walter Reade Theater on Sept. 21, 2025 in New York.
October 4, 2025
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Paul Thomas Anderson meets the moment with ‘One Battle After Another’
Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson tried to adapt Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland” for a few years before he made what would become “One Battle After Another,” a movie inspired by the novel that takes its own creative swings.