Jennifer Lawrence is heaping praise onto Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” calling the action thriller “the best movie I’ve ever seen.”
In the latest episode of BAFTA and Samsung’s “BAFTA Playback,” Lawrence shared meaningful scenes from some of her past work, including “Winter’s Bone” and her latest project “Die My Love,” as well as from her personal favorite movies. Introducing the moment from “One Battle After Another” when Leonardo DiCaprio is talking on a payphone struggling to remember the password for the “rendezvous point,” Lawrence said: “This is the best movie I’ve ever seen. This is ‘One Battle After Another.’”
The Oscar winner went on to say that she “can’t remember a time where I ever had an experience like that in the cinema, and it was shared.”
She continued, “When it was over, everyone applauded. I just kept thanking my husband over and over and over again because he had booked the tickets, like two weeks in advance, and I just couldn’t say anything else other than just like, thank you for that experience.”
Anderson’s latest epic follows an ex-revolutionary (DiCaprio) who is forced back into his former combative lifestyle when he and his daughter (Chase Infiniti) become pursued by a corrupt military officer (Sean Penn). The two-hour-and-42-minute film was widely critically acclaimed and has been tipped as an Oscar frontrunner.
Lawrence urged viewers: “You have to see it in theaters. I think it’s an impossible pace to uphold. There’s not an extra minute in it, at no point does it drag.” She added that Anderson “has so many characters inside of him, and they’re all so visceral, so real that you’re, it’s so alive and you’re in it. Every character, you are, you know them and you see them.”
She also praised the film’s performances, specifically that of Penn. “I mean, Leo, obviously, but I mean, my God,” Lawrence said of Penn’s portrayal of Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw.
Watch Lawrence’s full episode of “BAFTA Playback” below.
