Paul Thomas Anderson spent years dreaming of adapting Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, a novel published in 1990. He then filmed his adaptation of that novel nearly two years ago. Yet somehow, One Battle After Another, Anderson’s latest masterpiece, feels like it was made expressly with the headlines of the last few months in mind. It also feels eerily prescient, showing us a twisted, fun-house mirror version of the depravity to which the United States will likely sink in the coming years under the hideous Trump regime.
