An Overstuffed Satirical Knickknack
Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's dark comedy 'One Battle After Another' turns overreaching into an art form.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s dark comedy One Battle After Another turns overreaching into an art form. Scene by scene, this “loose adaptation” (per the end credits) of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland strains to be a two-hour-and-41-minute statement ab...