Magnolia
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- Synopsis
- Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson followed his critical and commercial breakthrough Boogie Nights with this wildly ambitious story of lives intertwining on a single day in California's San Fernando Valley....
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- Director(s)
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Distributor(s)
- New Line
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 188 min.
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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
The kind of film I instinctively respond to. Leave logic at the door. Do not expect subdued taste and restraint, but instead a kind of operatic ecstasy.Read the full review
Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites
Anderson must have needed that bonkers third-hour climax because there was nowhere to go short of spontaneous combustion.Read the full review
USA Today | Mike ClarkAdd Critic to Favorites
The most imperfect of the year's best movies, Magnolia's flaws are easily forgiven because they are the result of go-for-broke ambition.Read the full review