By winning the Oscar for Best Director for One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson has made a belated Gen X triumph. The movie itself]feels authentically Gen X in that it doesn’t embrace selling out idealistic values while still acknowledging the foibles of growing older. It also plugs right into current events unfolding in front of us while nonetheless springing from a period in American film history – the mid-to-late 1990s – that informed some of the medium’s best work