Review: Magnolia
With Magnolia , director Paul Thomas Anderson has segued into the realm of the three hour movie. It's an ambitious step to take - making lengthy, ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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Review: Magnolia
Magnolia " is operatic in its ambition, a great, joyous leap into melodrama and coincidence, with ragged emotions, crimes and punishments, ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
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Entangled Lives on the Cusp of the Millennium
The NY Times review of Magnolia, a Paul Thomas Anderson film starring Jason Robards, Jr. and Julianne Moore. Magnolia movie trailer, showtimes, ...
The New York Times - Janet Maslin - 12/17/99
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Tangled tale reveals how past holds us hostage
We're through with the past. But the past isn't through with us. That sentiment is uttered several times by several people in writer/director Paul ...
Canoe.ca - RANDALL KING
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Emotional journeys in mystical Magnolia
Abandon all expectations, all ye who enter the emotional, dysfunctional, pathological, mystical, coincidental and ultimately wonderful world of ...
Canoe.ca - STEVE TILLEY
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Review: Magnolia (1999)
"Magnolia" is a mind-blowing masterpiece of a movie--heavy in drama, intense emotional material, characters, and underlying themes. ...
TheMovieBoy.com - Dustin Putman
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Review: Magnolia
"Magnolia"makes it three-for-three for writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson, 29, who follows Hard Eight and Boogie Nights with his most ardent ...
Rolling Stone - Editorial Review
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Blooming awful
With Hard Eight and Boogie Nights, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson made an auspicious and promising debut. Magnolia, his latest effort, ...
Canoe.ca - LOUIS B. HOBSON
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A mocking allure to Magnolia
There are 11 stories, 10 sub-plots, nine sick jokes, eight subversions, but not one partridge in a pear tree. That's the mixed up circus, ...
Canoe.ca - BOB THOMPSON - 12/24/99
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Review: MAGNOLIA
A sprawling, leisurely film that recalls Robert Altman's NASHVILLE in both idiosyncrasy and emotional depth as it strolls through the lives of ...
TV Guide - Maitland McDonagh
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Review: Magnolia
This will all make sense in the end. There is the story of a dying man, his young wife, his caretaker, and his lost son. ...
Kinnopio.com - Craig Roush
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Review: Magnolia
The San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, CA. One day, a dozen lives, inexorably intertwined through duplicity, affection and destiny. ...
Palo Alto Online - Jeanne Aufmuth
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Review: Magnolia
"Magnolia" begins with a narrator telling us about some amazing coincidences -- like a guy who lived at Greenberry Hill being killed by three guys ...
EricDSnider.com - Eric D. Snider
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Review: Magnolia (Dvd)
Since its theatrical release last December, a few of the film's detractors have tried to convince me of the perceived error of my ways, ...
Film Threat - Michael Dequina
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Review: Magnolia
Paul Thomas Anderson's examination of dysfunctional relationships set in Los Angeles, is spread across a cast of characters too real for the ...
Film Threat - Chris Gore - 01/10/00
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Review: Magnolia
"There's enough mist in here to save 10 masturbators!" If the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave out a special Oscar for the year's ...
FilmBlather.com - Eugene Novikov
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MAGNOLIA Film Review
Carl Jung defined synchronicity as being "a meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where something other than the probability of chance is ...
Boxoffice Online - Christine James
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JoBlo's movie review of Magnolia: Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, John C. Reilly
A wonderfully crafted picture, this movie sweeps you through the lives of many interesting characters, develops several extremely memorable ...
JoBlo's Movie Emporium - Berge Garabedian
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Review: Magnolia
Sooner or later, every director makes his Short Cuts . Paul Thomas Anderson ( Boogie Nights ) only waited until his third film to make his, ...
FilmCritic.com - Christopher Null
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Review: Magnolia
Paul Thomas Anderson's debt to Robert Altman blatantly emerges with a scenario - interconnected characters struggle with love, ...
Empire Online - Kim Newman
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Review: Magnolia (1999)
Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, Melora Walters, Jeremy Blackman, Michael Bowen, William H. Macy ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Edward Johnson-Ott
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Review: Magnolia (1999)
A couple of times a year a film involves me so completely that I forget to notice things. I stop looking for clever camera angles and listening ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Mark O'Hara - 01/16/00
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Review: Magnolia (1999)
Cast: John C. Reilly, Melora Walters, Philip Baker Hall, Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeremy Blackman, ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Dustin Putman
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Review: Magnolia (1999)
MAGNOLIA (director/writer: Paul Thomas Anderson; cinematographer: Robert Elswit; cast: Jeremy Blackman (Stanley Spector), Tom Cruise (Frank TJ ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Dennis Schwartz - 01/30/00
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Review: Magnolia (1999)
I approached "Magnolia" with very mixed expectations. Some, including Roger Ebert, had proclaimed it to be a masterpiece. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Marshall Garvey - 04/26/05
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