✅ Viscerally kinetic with unrelenting forward momentum and ever-mounting suspense.
✅ Gorgeous cinematography and cut, mostly shot on 35mm VistaVision, which rocks.
✅ While the trailer wades too deep into comedy territory for my taste, comedy and drama are perfectly balanced.
Didn’t want to watch it at first as Vineland is biographically close to my heart, but the movie’s really merely “inspired” by it so all’s fine.
One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025.
Watched at the Metropol theater on February 11, 2026, in its original language.