One Battle After Another vs. Sinners
Two of the most acclaimed and beloved filmmakers working today, Paul Thomas Anderson and Ryan Coogler, released well received films in 2025. Initially I was not too interested in seeing either film. I do not naturally gravitate toward vampire films (in the past 30 years I’ve only seen Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and From Dusk Till Dawn). When I heard vampires were the subject of Coogler’s new film I was disappointed that he had applied his superb talents to something that did not interest me. The buzz and reviews of the film were superb though and I gradually came around to thinking that it might be worth checking out but by the time I had it had already left cinemas. I saw the trailer for One Battle After Another when watching another movie during the summer of 2025 (probably at Superman) and it did not grab me. I felt it was probably a misuse of Anderson’s talents to do an action film and DiCaprio’s character ju...