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Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ Opens to Career-High Reviews and a Rare Large-Format Rollout

Rare large‑format presentations help turn the release into an awards‑season event.

Overview

  • The film debuts to a 98% Rotten Tomatoes critic score, the highest for Anderson’s filmography, according to Forbes.
  • Audiences can see it in multiple formats, with true VistaVision projection limited to four theaters in Los Angeles, New York, Boston and London, TheWrap reports.
  • IMAX 70mm screenings run in a 1.43:1 aspect ratio for the entire runtime at 10 locations worldwide, an atypical presentation for a narrative feature.
  • Warner Bros. pursued a deliberately coy campaign featuring vague trailers, a Fortnite tie‑in, meme posts and a surprise sports‑podcast appearance by Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio del Toro, per SlashFilm.
  • DiCaprio describes the physically demanding anti‑hero role as exhausting and says he intentionally “didn’t land” many stunts, as the movie opens nationwide in theaters.