One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, becomes 2025's highest rated movie on Metacritic after debuting to rave reviews

Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob in One Battle After Another
(Image credit: Warner Bros.)

The latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another, has debuted to rave reviews.

The action thriller, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, has been receiving near-universal acclaim, so much so that it's the year's highest-rated movie on Metacritic with a near-perfect score of 96.

Most of the other reviews are similarly glowing. "In years to come, when this appears on TV late at night, it’ll be impossible to switch off. It's just one of those films," reads Empire's five-star review.

"This is another slam-dunk for Anderson, who has made a film that is a very rare beast indeed: one that is incredibly fun without ever once straining to be. And if you’re reading these words, it's your god-given duty to go see this in a cinema on the biggest, loudest screen you're able to access," says Little White Lies' review.

However, not everyone is convinced. TheWrap's review reads: "It’s possible, maybe even likely, that Paul Thomas Anderson has stuffed so much into one movie that a lot of people will find something to take away from it. All I see is the lack of focus."

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Molly Edwards
Deputy Entertainment Editor

I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.

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