Movies

Bob is a weathered revolutionary, constantly stoned and paranoid. He belongs to an armed group of activists that attacks detention centers for migrants on the Mexican-American border. His troubles begin when his daughter Willa goes missing, and a sworn enemy from his past reappears on the scene.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, One Battle After Another, is inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s satirical novel Vineland, in which the great postmodernist writer offers a distinctive perspective on the transformation of the American political and mental landscape—from the revolutionary 1960s to the reactionary Reagan era that defined the 1980s.