S16 Ep841: One Battle After Another (2025, W❤️M) [EXTENDED PREVIEW]
We Hate Movies
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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“I’ve seen this six times…” - Andrew
On this month’s We ❤️ Movies episode, we’re chatting about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest cinematic achievement, One Battle After Another! How absolutely fantastic is Teyana Taylor in this movie? Can we confirm that audiences love it when Leo plays low-status guys? What a year for the legendary Jim Downey, huh? Has there been a better Steely Dan needle drop? And could Sean Penn take his fake nose from this movie and use it to star in a Jimmy Durante biopic? PLUS: Coming next summer, Paul Thomas Anderson’s American Pie featuring the Seann William Scott as Steve Lockjaw!
One Battle After Another stars Teyana Taylor, Chase Infinity, Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Wood Harris, Alana Haim, Shayna McHayle, Paul Grimstad, Dijon Duenas, Brooklyn Demme, Sean Penn, Eric Schweig, Tony Goldwyn, James Downey, John Hoogenakker, Kevin Tighe, James Raterman, April Grace, and Benicio Del Toro as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos; directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
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| 0:00.0 | Where is this stand now in the PTA canon? |
| 0:15.1 | And I will admit, to this day, I've still never seen Hard 8, and I got, I'm due for |
| 0:19.7 | rewatch on a lot of his shit. Yeah, Hardate's great. I actually just rewatch Phantom Thread. I only saw licorice and the same thing with inherent vice. I guess it's tough because I really love Boogie Nights and I really love also Magnolia as well. I think it's fourth for me. Fourth. So what are the other three? This would be definitely my top three for sure. I think number one's always going to be the master. Okay. And the master's excellent. Yes, you're right. The master's always going to be my number one. Yeah. Great movie. Number two is probably almost always going to be inherent bias. I love that, man. |
| 0:54.5 | It's a good one. |
| 0:55.7 | At number three is Boogie Nights, because that was the one that introduced me to it. |
| 1:01.1 | That is getting a nostalgic kick. |
| 1:03.2 | Ultimately, this might overtake that because it is nostalgia because he's just become a better filmmaker. |
| 1:09.8 | Like, it's just that simple. |
| 1:11.4 | Like Magnolia and Boogie Nights are both, I think, great, |
| 1:14.1 | but they're just in comparison to Phantom Thread and this and even |
| 1:17.8 | licorice pizza. |
| 1:18.7 | I think they're just not as dynamic, |
| 1:22.1 | as diverse as like striking as those movies are. |
| 1:25.6 | But yeah, |
| 1:26.0 | and I think one battle goes right after that my my top |
| 1:28.5 | three i think is one battle there will be blood phantom thread licorice pizza didn't really knock my |
| 1:34.4 | socks i didn't care for it i dug i love it but it was okay i like inherent advice a lot |
| 1:39.0 | though that would probably be for magnolia i'm really due to rewatch i forgot about fucking there |
| 1:43.6 | there will be blood which is one of the best movies in the world. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah, it's really funny. |
| 1:46.9 | This is really hard. |
| 1:47.9 | That would be Blood is right after one battle for me. |
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