Steven Spielberg Heaps Praise on 'One Battle After Another,' Watched Movie 3 Times

Steven Spielberg is a big fan of One Battle After Another.

The legendary filmmaker heaped praise on director Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel after an advance screening in Los Angeles this week.

During a post-screening panel discussion, Spielberg revealed he had already seen the film three times. One Battle After Another stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a paranoid, washed-up revolutionary who sets off in search of his missing daughter (Chase Infiniti).

“What an insane movie, oh my God,” said Spielberg, as reported by The Film Stage. “There is more action in the first hour of this than every other film you’ve ever directed put together. Everything, it is really incredible. This is such a concoction of things that are so bizarre and at the same time so relevant, that I think have become increasingly more relevant than perhaps even when you finished the screenplay and assembled your cast and crew and began production.”

Spielberg also compared the film to Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 black comedy classic Dr. Strangelove.

“I have not seen a movie that is so tonally a relative to Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove,” he said. “This brings a kind of absurdist comedy, taken very seriously, because it’s so much a reflection of what’s happening today, every day, throughout this country.

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