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‘One Battle After Another’ at $22m+ reps record debut for Paul Thomas Anderson; Leonardo DiCaprio’s eleventh movie to open to $20m+
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- Title
- 'One Battle After Another' Still Advancing To $21M Opening, Armed With 'A' CinemaScore & Massive PostTrak Definite Recommend - Box Office
- Authors
- Anthony D'Alessandro
- Published
- Sep 27 2025
- Word count
- 2866 words
Saw it for a second time last night. Understandable that it likely won't make back what it cost, hard to market a movie like this, but I encourage everyone to see it! Funny as hell, and it's so propulsive that those 2 hr 40 minutes fly by. Everyone gives great performances in this, Teyana Taylor and Sean Penn being standouts. Go see it!
Got in a second viewing last night as well. After my first, certain aspects seemed thin, and only enjoyable for the thrill of novelty.
Happy to report negatively on that. It's really great. Chase Infiniti's performance was stellar, and heartbreaking, the use of time felt more real than most movies seem capable of, the cinematography, particularly its use of lines of sight, gah. I love the book, save one major wrinkle, and Anderson fixed that. He also smoothed out a lot of the wrinkles I love it for, but Vineland is extremely dense, extremely literary (in the sense of feeling rooted to its exact words), and extremely goofy in a way that probably would not play onscreen.
Sure, we lost Hector, with his self-imposed dual consciousness as Ricardo Montalban and his manic tragedy, but we gained Sensei, with his specops wu wei. Sure, we lost Zoyd, a true rebel without a cause only less than he is a loving father, but we gained Perfidia, who is less reducible to a misogynistic symbol than Frenesi.
I didn't get to see it in film projection, but honestly, there might be something to the VistaVision hype. I don't know if I've seen anything more hypnotic than this and the Brutalist come out in years, and it's not like those movies use their cameras the same ways at all.
This puts an end to Warner Bros incredible 2025 streak. Abdy and De Luca’s slate gave us consecutive 40m openers from April until now. It would have been nice if this also broke out, not only continue their streak, but to prove that their bet on prestige blockbusters fully paid off. Oh well.