One Battle After Another (2025) Paul Thomas Anderson @ The Commodore Theatre

This looks like another long, crazy Paul Thomas Anderson epic like Magnolia. (Well, buckle up!)

We'll be watching at the beautiful, historic Commodore Theatre in downtown Portsmouth. If you haven't been, it's a wonderful venue to take in a movie and even has pretty good food.

RUNTIME: 170 minutes

SYNOPSIS: Bob is a washed-up revolutionary who lives in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces and Willa goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her as both father and daughter battle the consequences of their pasts.

BLURBS:
"It’s a live wire that drops in the first scene, setting off sparks for the next 162 minutes." - Brian Tellerica, *RogerEbert.com*

"In years to come, when this appears on TV late at night, it’ll be impossible to switch off. It’s just one of those films. A stone-cold, instant classic." - Alex Godfrey, Empire Magazine

"For Anderson, it’s as definitive an artist’s statement as Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, though he’s looking resolutely forward where his contemporary looked back." - Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent (UK)

"You could say I’ve now come back to being an Anderson believer, but the way I’d put it is this: After years of overly determined theatrics, he has gone back to being a master." - Owen Gleiberman, Variety