One Battle After Another Review: Paul Thomas Anderson's Latest Is a Virtuosic, Prescient Triumph

Back in 1956, when John Ford released The Searchers, the VistaVision format was merely two years old. A fine-grain film stock initially conceived as a counter to the increased popularity of television, the technology was propped up as a potential saving grace. Get the audience back into their seats through a version of film that was more film than film. Lean into the stuff that makes the cinema its own, distinct art form.