One DiCaprio after another

Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, currently in theatres, is the most acclaimed American film of 2025. It is a tour de force packed with great performances, not least from Leonardo DiCaprio as a revolutionary on the run who has, over the years, become a bumbling stoner. It is yet another subversive role within an ambitious and challenging filmography. To go with this latest triumph, here are nine other sensational performances from that Titanic leading man.

- RAJA SEN

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (LIONSGATE PLAY)

Jordan Belfort sees DiCaprio unleashed, a cocaine-fuelled tornado of excess and depravity. He's hilarious, horrifying, and hypnotic... often within the same scene. That Quaalude sequence alone deserves its own Oscar, as DiCaprio's limbs turn to rubber while he desperately crawls toward his Lamborghini. He makes the monster charming enough that we understand why people followed him into financial ruin, yet never lets us forget the toxicity beneath the magnetism.

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (AVAILABLE TO RENT ON APPLE TV)

DiCaprio plays Frank Wheeler, and, reuniting with Titanic heroine Kate Winslet, portrays how masculinity's fragile ego cracks under conformity's pressure. A kitchen argument explodes with years of unspoken resentment, while earlier scenes reveal the dreamer-slowly, inevitably, compromise after compromise-calcifying into convention. DiCaprio demonstrates how ordinary life becomes extraordinary tragedy.

THE REVENANT (JIOHOTSTAR)

DiCaprio crawled through frozen hell to clutch an Oscar for this role, turning suffering into art. As explorer Hugh Glass, he grunts and gasps through the punishing wilderness, communicating anguish through physicality rather than dialogue. Watch him devour raw bison liver, witness the grief on his frostbitten face as he remembers his murdered son, feel the determination burning in his eyes during that spectacular bear-mauling sequence.