YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION?

Call him Bob. A former member of American antifascist group French 75, played by Leo DiCaprio in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, Bob's now a bit longer in the tooth and looser in the brain, and finds it difficult to recall the series of code words needed to get a phone assist from his former network of resistance fighters.

- SCOTT GARCEAU

Leo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson in PT Anderson's One Battle After Another (Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures) Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal take it to the streets in Eddington.

Watch Bob fumble to answer the code prompt “What time is it?” for the 10th time, as his daughter (newcomer Chase Infiniti) is abducted by diabolical right-wing nut Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw, played by Sean Penn. Bob’s fuse has run out and he’s exploding into a payphone while wearing ridiculous sunglasses and a tattered bathrobe. Very Lebowski.

Anderson returns to Thomas Pynchon for this epic comedy thriller that takes on antifa and a current war on US soil against immigrants, drawing loosely from the novel Vineland. (It’s the second time Anderson has translated Pynchon to film, with 2014’s Inherent Vice also featuring a stoned protagonist, played by Joaquin Phoenix, tracking down a missing woman.)