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95
Viewer score based on 4 votes.

Critic Score

77
Critics' score based on 34 reviews.
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Simply a messy masterpiece. Every performance in this film is speicla in its own way, but I would have to give it all to Tom Cruise, who stole almost... the entire movie. Every time he came on my television screen, a struck of excitement hit me due to his character's emotions. This movie will hit you very hard. Paul Thomas Anderson has created a classic of the century. Full Review

November 06,2011
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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.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

One of the best movies of the year--startling, innovative, hugely funny and powerfully, courageously moving.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

Anderson must have needed that bonkers third-hour climax because there was nowhere to go short of spontaneous combustion.Full Review

David Edelstein
Slate

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.Full Review

Mike Clark
USA Today

Anderson's big, showy flower of a movie unfurls brilliantly, each plot petal a thing of exquisite design. Then it ripens. Then it disintegrates, leaving a mess of color and a faint whiff of rot.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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