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One Battle After Another is about this moment in history. And every other time too.

All of the things that make the film timely really mark its timelessness, writes Emily St. James.
Leonardo DiCaprio, clad in a bathrobe and comfy clothes, stands on a desert highway, holding a gun, his beater car just behind him.
Leonardo DiCaprio plays a former revolutionary who just wants to save his kid without changing out of his bathrobe in One Battle After Another. (Credit: Warner Bros.)

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