Revolutionary Roadtrip

One Battle After Another’s politics are existential, but you can still hiss the villains

[Like every year, I’m getting some early Oscar favorites reviewed before the nominations come out on the 22nd, and doing fill-ins after. So far I’ve done Marty Supreme, Nuremberg, Frankenstein, Blue Moon, Wake Up Dead Man and Avatar: Fire and Ash. The Great Work Continues!)

Paul Thomas Anderson made One Battle After Another out of Thomas Pynchon’s Vinela…