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December 19, 2025

Best movies of 2025 in the US: No 1

Leonardo DiCaprio is a former revolutionary searching for his daughter in Paul Thomas Anderson’s exhilaratingly audacious counterculture epic The best movies of 2025 in the US More on the best culture of 2025

Best movies of 2025 in the US: No 1

TL;DR

  • The film is a formal enigma, inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel "Vineland", and has been met with mixed interpretations.
  • Screenwriter Paul Schrader praised the filmmaking quality but lacked empathy for the characters.
  • The film's lack of empathy for its protagonists contributes to its gripping nature, highlighting their impending disaster.
  • The movie's filmmaking is described as elegant and theatrical, with a notable car chase sequence.
  • It critiques a petty-tyrannical America and those who resist it.
  • The film's setting is intentionally ambiguous, existing between the Obama and Trump years or in an alternate reality.
  • Leonardo DiCaprio plays Bob, a former revolutionary, and Sean Penn plays Col Steven Lockjaw, an intelligence chief.
  • Teyana Taylor plays Perfidia, who manipulates Lockjaw, leading to a paternity crisis involving their daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti).
  • The film is described as a protest song against cruelty and despotism, celebrating the heroism of dissent.
  • The score by Jonny Greenwood is highlighted as superb.

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