The birth of a master, Magnolia can be the most complex and clearer film testimony about the so-called structure and characters, which are developed here under 9 subplots that despite having a subtle narrative union between them, keep an evolutionary link within the 3 essential acts of the approach, confrontation and resolution.

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The words 'cute' or 'endearing' aren't exactly words one uses to describe the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson, a director whose filmography is known for its cynical and, at times, pessimistic look at human nature. These words are also not ones I'd use to describe Adam Sandler, a man whose 'films' generally consist of a vulgar sludge of lowest brow humor that would make a caveman want to destroy any and all traces of them.

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More of an experience then a standard film, Paul Thomas Anderson’s sixth feature is a tightly wound, disturbing yet fascinating character study, while also providing one of the best examinations of the cult mentality put to film in recent memory.

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Paul Thomas Anderson's third feature marked the peak of his increasingly complex ensemble dramas, marking the exceptional maturation and expansion of the stylistic and storytelling tropes he first properly explored in Boogie Nights.

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Paul Thomas Anderson's second film is a fascinating, intentionally sprawling examination of the lives of those sucked into the California porn industry in the late 1970s through the early 1980s, and not only provides a unique lens in which to view the time period, also manages to humanize these characters, while still highlighting the exploitative and demeaning elements of the industry, coupled with the allure of stardom and fame that it promises.

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In what is possibly the most beautifully confusing cinematic experience I've had, Paul Thomas Anderson's most recent feature, and his seventh film, manages to to be an absurdest, stoned out trip down the sweaty, drug addled and sex crazed summer byways of 1970 Los Angeles, as we follow an equally absurdest and stoned out private detective as he is quickly dragged into an incomprehensible conspiracy involving hippies, Neo-Nazis allied Jewish land developers, cults, and Chinese heron dealers,

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