
All 8 Paul Thomas Anderson Movie Ranked Worst to Best (Photos)

One of the most acclaimed directors under the age of 50, Paul Thomas Anderson is a master of character-driven dramas. He is known for working with some of the world’s finest actors in films about obsessive men. Some of those men are obsessed with such predictable vices as gambling (“Hard Eight”), porn (“Boogie Nights”) and drugs (“Inherent Vice”). The poison of other obsessive men in Anderson’s films has been more complex — a mind-controlling religious cult (“The Master”), the oil industry (“There Will be Blood”), sexual politics (“Magnolia”) and haute-couture dressmaking (“Phantom Thread”). Anderson’s actors never disappoint, but occasionally his.
- 12/27/2017
- by Claudia Puig
- The Wrap
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