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Nominated for nine Golden Globe Awards and 14 Critics Choice Awards, experience Paul Thomas Anderson’s instant classic on screen-filling IMAX 70mm.
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The star and director-producer-writer of one of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year visit BFI IMAX to introduce a special screening of One Battle After Another.
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