DiCaprio's Forthcoming New Movie Getting Rave Reviews

Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film is being hailed as a masterpiece, with Steven Spielberg among the high-profile industry figure singing its praises.

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The first rave reactions for Paul Thomas Anderson, the director, and Leonardo DiCaprio's One Battle After Another are led by none other than Steven Spielberg, who praised the movie while moderating a Q&A with Anderson at the Director’s Guild of America theater in Los Angeles. “What an insane movie, oh my God,” Spielberg said (via 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."

Loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, the movie casts DiCaprio as a washed-up revolutionary who is forced to save his teenage daughter when an enemy from his past reappears, says Variety. The supporting cast includes Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti in her film debut. It is scheduled to be released on 26 September.

The film has also received rave reviews from critics. IndieWire’s David Ehrlich said: “One Battle After Another might be the best movie released by a major American studio since I started working as a critic (~2010). Distressing how little else comes to mind!” Meanwhile, film critic Brett Arnold wrote that it’s “my fav of the year. I laughed out loud throughout, it’s probably Anderson’s funniest movie, and by the end I was so deeply moved I was crying,” Arnold added. “Sean Penn will win an incredibly well-deserved Oscar. And the action! My god. I haven’t stopped thinking about the car chase and what the camera does.”

Here's the latest trailer...