Essential viewing for what is happening in our country right now.

One Battle After Another hurtles into the present without compromising Anderson’s sense of fractured, constantly rearranged, weirdly personal American history.

PTA, the preferred shorthand for the best high-wire director of his generation, wakes up the sleeping giant of American cinema by trip-wiring every scene in this radical blast of action, fun and fervor like an incendiary device that’s primed to explode.

The amplitude, the riot and hoot, the tonal and vehicular swerves and collisions of One Battle After Another make for cineplex joy.