One Battle After Another

It’s a big week for political films on streaming. Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the work of Thomas Pynchon with One Battle After Another, a wild film where Leonardo DiCaprio plays a washed up activist on the run, which is now available to stream on HBO Max. Glen Powell is fleeing from trained killers as part of a depraved game show in Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, which rushes onto VOD. George A. Romero’s daughter, Tina Romero, made her directorial debut with Queens of the Dead. The horror comedy about the queer community eating itself shambles onto Shudder. The magicians/thieves…