Magnolia (1999)
84 %
Reviews Counted: 133 Fresh: 112 Rotten:21 Average Rating: 7.5/10
Consensus:
Critics say Magnolia is an ambitious, lengthy work that ultimately succeeds due to the interesting stories and excellent ensemble performances.
Runtime: 3 hrs 8 mins
Synopsis: In a single day in Los Angeles, a number of interconnected lives are changed forever. A lonely police officer (John C. Reilly) falls in love with a disturbed cocaine addict (Melora Walters). Her father (Philip Baker Hall), the host of the game show "What Do Kids Know?" has terminal cancer and... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: John C. Reilly, Julianne Moore, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Cruise
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Screenwriter: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producer: Joanne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson
Composer: Jon Brion
Screenwriter: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producer: Joanne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson
Composer: Jon Brion
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Top Critic
Magnolia's finest achievement is the sheer ambition running through every vein.
04/28/08
There's a lot of really neat, cool honestly imaginative stuff in Magnolia, but it's hardly the best movie I've seen in the past month.
10/29/07
Magnolia is a mess, but it's somehow encouraging: It takes a gifted director to make a movie this extravagantly foolish.
09/27/07
What this film may have needed to get on its feet is some honest-to-goodness violence.
04/27/07
Top Critic
One of the most enthralling and exhilarating American movies in ages.
06/24/06
A bold move for Anderson, an amazing display of acting for Tom Cruise, and one of the best films of 1999.
12/06/05
Top Critic
I think Flannery O'Connor's philosophy -- that a desensitized culture sometimes need exaggerated, loud storytelling to reawaken it -- is the operating principle here.
01/15/05
Anderson's movie has the audacity to expose the ugliness within a society that worships power and cherishes materialism.
06/22/04
If it is emotional cinema you seek then this, my friends, is for you.
01/09/04
If any film could be described as 'art for art's sake,' it would be Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia.
02/08/03
It's a gambler's strategy -- double or nothing -- and Magnolia's gamble pays off.
12/03/02
Ever since the credits rolled I’ve been able to think of little else.
10/30/02
Anderson brings us his third movie... with more confidence and skill than his 29 years would suggest.
10/22/02
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