Paul Thomas Anderson

“One Battle After Another”: a Complete Satire of Polarization

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Split image showing two opposing characters from One Battle After Another. On the left, a woman in a military jacket (Perfidia Beverly Hills) speaks tensely into a pay phone, her face half-lit in blue neon. On the right, a stern older man (Colonel Lockjaw) stands behind a chain-link fence under harsh white light, his expression rigid. The contrasting color tones and framing emphasize their ideological opposition and mirror-like symmetry.

A film that turns America’s ideological fever into satire— and dares us to see the joke’s on us.

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Astonishing Performances Power Paul Thomas Andersen’s “Phantom Thread”

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The films of Paul Thomas Anderson are anything but conventional, and Phantom Thread is not even close to an exception. Anderson writes and directs this story about Reynolds Woodcock, paragon of the 1950s haute couture scene. Daniel Day Lewis portrays this eccentric man to perfection, inhabiting the character as only he can. The acting talent … Read more