Arts & Entertainment
Paul Thomas Anderson’s funny, intense ‘Battles’
Equal parts Dr. Strangelove, The Battle of Algiers and Paper Moon, the film follows Leonardo DiCaprio as “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun, an explosives expert and member of the French 75, a revolutionary group that we meet rescuing immigrants from a detention center in Southern California. He falls in love with Perfidia Beverly Hills, played by the incendiary Teyana Taylor...