One Battle After Another

Paul Thomas Anderson's action-comedy is loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, a burned-out former radical living off the grid. When the obsessive Colonel Lockjaw (Sean Penn) resurfaces 16 years later, Bob's daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti) is in danger, and Bob's old comrades, including Benicio del Toro's karate sensei, are pulled back into the fight. It was Anderson's first film to win Best Picture.