India, Sept. 26 -- There is a scene in One Battle After Another in which a demented Army officer (Sean Penn) ogles at a female revolutionary from afar, getting some perverse pleasure as the woman holds other soldiers hostage. Most directors would have fallen prey to grossly objectifying the woman in this scene. But Paul Thomas Anderson sails through. Even in a scene seen through the eyes of a voyeur, he gives the woman the power. That, perhaps, sets the tone of the film. One Battle After Another is scattered and batshit crazy, veering into Coen Brothers territory more often than the Paul Thomas Anderson zone. But despite this, it is a sensitively depicted satire on modern-day America with political undertones and some brilliant performanc...