This is a movie that across its 2 hours and 41 minutes features a noxious white supremacist group called the Christmas Adventurers, a snarling Sean Penn character who walks like he has a branding iron permanently stuck up his ass, and an uncomfortably high Leonardo DiCaprio arguing over revolutionary code words with a comrade. And somehow, on top of it all, we get a striking multigenerational story about a family caught up in fighting for what’s right, told with a kind of prescience about the current state of America that will be marveled at for a long time to come.

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