Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, blasted the critical praise for Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, One Battle After Another, claiming it’s only being done due to the film’s political agenda.This Substack is reader-supported.
The film was definitely not good. It had admirable technical qualities, because PTA is skilled at the craft, but it was lost and lacked a thematic center, flirting with questions about what political radicalism does to a person's moral compass, but being unwilling to actually engage with them lest it tarnish its polished Leftist stereotypes.
The same could be said for just about everything being churned out by Hollywood: The Acolyte, Star Trek: Discovery, everything with Pedro Pascal in it...
It's all slop nobody watches, but it's rated over 9000% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
I smell shenanigans with the RT audience rating.
There is nothing reliable about Rotten Tomatoes. I go to Criticless now to get real people's opinions.
The film was definitely not good. It had admirable technical qualities, because PTA is skilled at the craft, but it was lost and lacked a thematic center, flirting with questions about what political radicalism does to a person's moral compass, but being unwilling to actually engage with them lest it tarnish its polished Leftist stereotypes.
The same could be said for just about everything being churned out by Hollywood: The Acolyte, Star Trek: Discovery, everything with Pedro Pascal in it...
It's all slop nobody watches, but it's rated over 9000% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.