Black Girl Watching

Black Girl Watching

One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution

Paul Thomas Anderson's action flick leaves much to be desired.

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Brooke Obie
Sep 30, 2025
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*Spoilers for the plot of One Battle After Another*

I was already annoyed after sitting through One Battle After Another for nearly three hours. I’m not in the “tight 90” brigade; I don’t mind a long movie that flows, but Paul Thomas Anderson’s empty foray into white leftist revolutionary ideology and iconography hypersexualized Black women, left much to…

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