One Battle After Another94% RT — a Action-Comedy-Thriller standout

Paul Thomas Anderson adapting Thomas Pynchon's Vineland with Leonardo DiCaprio sounds like a film-bro hallucination. It is not. This is a very real, very funny, very violent epic farce that opened to $21 million — Anderson's biggest North American debut ever — and an A CinemaScore.

Now the highest-rated film of 2025 on Letterboxd with a 4.5 average. Oscar buzz is deafening across Critics' Choice, Golden Globes, BAFTA, and the Academy. DiCaprio is mesmerizing; Sean Penn is generating best-supporting-actor talk for one of his most unhinged turns.

Verdict: Possibly the best movie of 2025. A coin flip with Sinners. More ambitious, more political, more strange. A 2.5-hour film that feels like 90 minutes.