The cheers were loud and long at the 98th Academy Awards after “One Battle After Another” won best picture. I’ve never seen this before.’”AdvertisementThat’s what makes “One Battle” far less weighty than critics and supporters alike have characterized it as being. In his attempt to make a comedy of errors about an era of terror, Anderson missed the forest for the trees about resistance in Trump’s America. AdvertisementOn the left, Anderson trots out stock characters — the oversexed Black woman revolutionary, Leo’s cuckolded white stoner, doctrinaire newcomers — from a Bob Hope skit about hippies. “One Battle” doesn’t belong in the same conversation as those masterpieces.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 17, 2026 13:01 UTC