Jennifer Lawrence Declares Leonardo DiCaprio’s “One Battle After Another” ‘the Best Movie I’ve Ever Seen’

Jennifer Lawrence has a new favorite movie.

The actress, 35, said in BAFTA and Samsung’s BAFTA Playback that Leonardo DiCaprio‘s 2025 action thriller One Battle After Another is “the best movie I’ve ever seen.”

“I can’t remember a time where I’ve had an experience like that in the cinema, and it was shared,” she said, adding that when the movie was over “everybody applauded.”!

Lawrence said she saw the movie with her husband Cooke Maroney and thanked him “over and over again because he had booked the tickets, like two weeks in advance.” After watching the thriller, she recalled, “I just couldn’t say anything else other than like, ‘Thank you for that experience.’ ”

Lawrence then urged fans to see the film in theaters and continued to share her praise “I think it’s an impossible pace to uphold,” she said. “There’s not an extra minute in it. At no point does it drag.”

As for the film’s writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson, the Die My Love star said, “Anderson has so many characters inside of him, and they’re all so visceral, so real, that it’s so alive and you’re in it. Every character, you know them, and you see them.”

Lawrence continued to compliment the starry cast, which includes Sean Penn and DiCaprio, saying, “The performances are unbelievable.”

One Battle After Another, based on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, follows DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson, a former revolutionary figure who is being hunted by Sean Penn‘s police character, Steven Lockjaw.

The movie, which came out in November, also stars Regina Hall, Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor. It premiered to critical acclaim and currently holds a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. 

While Lawrence is heaping praise onto this new release, she also had a movie come out in 2025. In director Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, the actress plays Grace, a young mother battling severe postpartum depression and psychosis that affects her marriage. Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek also star. 

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Speaking with PEOPLE about the movie earlier this month, the mother-of-two opened up about how her personal life shaped her performance.

“I didn’t really end up having really bad postpartum [anxiety] until my second [baby],” Lawrence said, noting that her experience as a mother allowed her to approach the movie with a more nuanced perspective.

“I think that just added another layer,” she explained. “I mean, I don’t think that you have to have kids to play a parent by any means, but having that information about, you know, what a tiny person needs, and is looking for. Just having that information was helpful.”