Jennifer Lawrence Crowns One 2025 Film the Best She Has Ever Seen
Jennifer Lawrence just crowned Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2025 release One Battle After Another the best movie she’s ever seen, raving about it on BAFTA and Samsung’s Play Back and even thanking her husband for scoring the tickets.
Jennifer Lawrence just crowned Leonardo DiCaprio and Paul Thomas Anderson's new one, 'One Battle After Another,' as the best movie she has ever seen. Not publicist fluff, either — she said it while watching a clip and basically lost her mind in real time.
Where she said it
Lawrence popped up on the latest episode of BAFTA and Samsung's 'Play Back' and queued up scenes from across her career — and one from DiCaprio and PTA's 2025 film. It was a quick tour through her past and present before she got to the one that had her floored.
- 'Die My Love' — her newest project
- 'Winter's Bone' — the breakthrough that put her on the map
- 'One Battle After Another' — the DiCaprio/PTA movie she now calls her favorite
"The best movie I have ever seen."
The clip that did it
Before reacting, she dropped that 'best ever' line, then watched a moment where DiCaprio's character, Bob, calls someone from a payphone. He says a guy named Steven J. Lockjaw attacked his home and demands to know where they are meeting next. Mid-clip, Lawrence blurted out:
"Time is an illusion, but it controls us anyway."
Yes, that is a pretty cosmic thing to say during a payphone scene. But it tracks with how hard the movie hit her.
The theater experience she could not shake
Afterward, she talked about how rare it felt to have a truly communal screening — the kind where the entire room is locked in together. She said the audience applauded when it ended, which she could not remember happening to her in ages.
She also admitted she thanked her husband, Cooke Maroney, over and over for buying tickets two weeks in advance. She literally got out of the screening and kept saying thank you for the experience. At 35, she is telling people to catch this one in a theater, full stop, even calling its momentum "an impossible pace to uphold."
Why she thinks it rips
Her praise was pretty specific: the movie never drags, and Paul Thomas Anderson packs it with characters that feel startlingly alive. In her words, it is so vivid you are just in it — every character pops, and you instantly know who they are.
She singled out the performances as unbelievable, giving shoutouts to Sean Penn and, obviously, DiCaprio. If you are keeping score, that is JLaw putting PTA's latest at the top of her personal all-time list and telling you to go see it with a crowd.