One Battle After Another
Leonardo DiCaprio in “One Battle After Another.” Warner Bros. Pictures photo via IMDb.com A few months after the provocative “Eddington” tried to find black humor in America's slippery slide toward fascism, iconic writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson mines the same sardonic vein in the action-packed “One Battle After Another.” Leonard DiCaprio stretches his Oscar-winning versatility into Cheech and Chong mode to play the film's antihero, Bob, who, it should be noted, goes through most of the film's nonstop chases, shootouts and road rages wearing a bathrobe. Sixteen years earlier, his name was “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun. He and his honey, Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor), were political revolutionaries. Not the horned boogeymen we hear about in White House press briefings, but the real kind. Anti-capitalistic warriors, armed to the teeth with explosives and big honkin' machine guns. They liberated migrants from heavily guarded immigration holding facilities. They r...