The most hostile critiques I've read of this film mention issues with the production or the people involved. Regardless of the subject matter of the film, one expects things like this from a film so mainstream with so many big-name actors. Still, it's vexing when a film is so outwardly political, and the ugliest fact about the production is indeed pretty bad: the clearing of a homeless encampment in Sacramento for the filming. This is a "political film" and decidedly not a "film made politically," in Godard's phrase. Its background and its priorities are closer to Christopher Nolan than The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived or Kanehsatake . I've seen convincing takes that don't suppose that it's trying to be like those films. Those films are not fantastical. One Battle After Another is indulging in a kind of fantasy when it depicts the French 75, its fictional radical-left militant faction. But through Benicio del Toro's character, Sen...
"We are in the world, not against it." - Ursula K. Le Guin