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Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s period satire, screening from a glorious IMAX 70mm print on the UK’s largest screen.
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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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