‘One Battle After Another’ Sets A Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score Record

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One Battle After Another One Battle After Another Today marks the release of what some are calling the best movie of the year, or even the past few years, and this is in 2025 where we already heard that about Sinners months ago. The film is P.T. Anderson’s One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and it’s just set a record for the director’s catalogue, which includes a stunning array of classic films. One Battle After Another now holds the record for the highest critic-scored P.T. Anderson film per Rotten Tomatoes critic scores, and by a solid margin. That’s significant because of the other films this is stacked up against. The list: One Battle After Another RT One Battle After Another (2025) – 98% critic score Boogie Nights (1997) – 91% critic score There Will Be Blood (2007) – 91% critic score Phantom Thread (2017) – 91% critic score Licorice Pizza (2021) – 90% critic score Magnolia (1999) – 82% Hard Eight (1996) – 82% critic score Punch-Drunk Love – 79% critic score I mean, you can see what I mean. At least half of those are considered some of the best genre films in each category, the highest-profile of which may be There Will Be Blood, but you could certainly make the argument for Boogie Nights as well. Magnolia’s 82% feels a bit off 26 years later, given the status that movie eventually amassed, and it remains one of Tom Cruise’s best performances before he went off to save the world eight times in Mission Impossible movies. Despite all this, P.T. Anderson has never won Best Picture for any of these movies, nor has he won Best Director, despite several nominations in each category. Daniel Day-Lewis did win an Oscar for Best Actor in There Will Be Blood, but…