- Studio: Weinstein Company, The
- Release Date: Sep 14, 2012
- Starring: Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons, Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Summary: In the years after WWII, an American intellectual creates a religion. When he meets a troubled drifter, he invites the man to help him spread the new faith. As their congregation increases, the drifter begins to question the religion he once accepted and the mentor who gave his life direction.
- Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
- Genre(s): Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 37 out of 43
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Mixed: 5 out of 43
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Negative: 1 out of 43
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100With potent performers and poetic visuals, Anderson has made the boldest American picture of the year. Its strangeness can be hard to process, but this is a shattering study of the impossibility of recovering the past.
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60What Anderson's talky and willfully opaque film doesn't have, however, is an unfailingly compelling story to tell.
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25Call The Master whatever you want, but lobotomized catatonia from what I call the New Hacks can never take the place of well-made narrative films about real people that tell profound stories for a broader and more sophisticated audience. Fads come and go, but as Walter Kerr used to say, "I'll yell tripe whenever tripe is served."
Score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 83
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Mixed: 11 out of 83
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Negative: 36 out of 83
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