{"id":5963,"date":"2026-02-14T16:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:58:37","slug":"one-battle-after-another-by-paul-thomas-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/02\/14\/one-battle-after-another-by-paul-thomas-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>One Battle After Another<\/em> by Paul Thomas Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 Viscerally kinetic with unrelenting forward momentum and ever-mounting suspense.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Gorgeous cinematography and cut, mostly shot on 35mm VistaVision, which rocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 While the trailer wades too deep into comedy territory for my taste, comedy and drama are perfectly balanced.<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t want to watch it at first as <em>Vineland<\/em> is biographically close to my heart, but the movie\u2019s really merely \u201cinspired\u201d by it so all\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One_Battle_After_Another\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>One Battle After Another<\/em><\/a> by Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025.<br \/>\nWatched at the Metropol theater on February 11, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/02\/14\/one-battle-after-another-by-paul-thomas-anderson\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Anderson\"><p>\ud83c\udfac If <em>Sinners<\/em> didn\u2019t exist, this would be my favorite from 2025.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}