One Box Office Battle After Another

Who’s going to win big at the Oscars? I know: Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, its title taken from a statement published in 1969 by the revolutionary-terrorist organization the Weather Underground. It’s the only “Oscars movie” we had in 2025, certainly the most talked about movie of the fall season. It received great praise for the way it glorified its fictional black terrorists. Writers at renowned publications had the chance to rehash radical chic, to connect the murderous radical politics of the “days of rage,” which closed out the 1960s and opened the ’70s, to the BLM/woke/ICE era.