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What this film may have needed to get on its feet is some honest-to-goodness violence.
All the work is top-notch.
You don't have to like everything [Anderson] does, but if you enjoy seeing the walls rattled and the roof raised in the Hollywood citadel, you've got to love it.
Yu could spend three hours snickering at Anderson's 'What the World Needs Now Is Aimee Mann' metaphysic. But his vision cuts deeper than a lot of folky bathos.
Magnolia makes it three-for-three for writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson
Short Cuts is clearly the starting point, but not the ending point for a movie that is probably the most overstuffed with ideas of anything in Paul Thomas Anderson's career.
A decade after its release, P.T. Anderson's emotionally epic Magnolia gets the glorious Blu-ray treatment it deserves. This Altman-esque mosaic follows several disparate L.A. citizens on one rainy day, as they navigate through mistakes and torrenti
The film becomes one big stew, with too much brewing in the mix. (Blu-ray Edition)
...it finally slumps down under its own weight and becomes a shambles. But, dang, it's such an attractive shambles.
Just as something so reliably surprising as the weather can modify people's behavior, "Magnolia" encompasses an inter-connective human bond that accepts reality's blind spots. Purity of intention, as the story suggests, is a happy accident that can hit ev
Magnolia's finest achievement is the sheer ambition running through every vein.
Undeniably one of the most emotionally-draining films ever made...
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.
Magnolia is a mess, but it's somehow encouraging: It takes a gifted director to make a movie this extravagantly foolish.
Easily one of the best of the year.
One of the most enthralling and exhilarating American movies in ages.
A bold move for Anderson, an amazing display of acting for Tom Cruise, and one of the best films of 1999.
I think Flannery O'Connor's philosophy -- that a desensitized culture sometimes need exaggerated, loud storytelling to reawaken it -- is the operating principle here.
Marks the arrival of a great, if not the greatest, modern director
Anderson's movie has the audacity to expose the ugliness within a society that worships power and cherishes materialism.
A brilliant, ambitious work painted on a sprawling canvas.
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