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One Battle After Another and What’s Making Us Happy
One Battle After Another earned 13 Oscar nominations - including best picture, best director and a lead actor nomination for Leonardo DiCaprio. In the action-thriller, DiCaprio plays a washed up ex-revolutionary searching for his missing daughter while raging against the machine. In this case, the machine is unabashedly racist, xenophobic, and corrupt. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the ensemble also includes Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor and Benicio del Toro. Today, we’re revisiting our episode about the film that originally aired in September 2025. Follow Pop Culture Happy Hour on Letterboxd at letterboxd.com/nprpopculture Amazon supports NPR and pays to distribute some of our content. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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