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Critical Consensus

Dueling Critics
starstarstarstar Lou Lumenick - NY Post
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Philip Wuntch - Dallas Morning News
starstarstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstarstar Bob Graham - SF Chronicle
starstarstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstarstar Ernest Hardy - Film.com
starstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstar Jonathan Lewis - The Reel Site
starstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstar Tom Block - culturevulture.net
starstar Desson Howe - Washington Post

“An audacious, hilarious, deeply affecting three-hour tapestry . . . I wish I could give it more than four stars”

- Lou Lumenick

“When you strip away the surface intensity of this movie, nothing remains but [director Paul Thomas] Anderson's desire to make a movie”

- Desson Howe

Magnolia
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A seemingly disparate group of people living in the San Fernando Valley find their lives intersecting during the course of a day. Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, Melora Walters, Jeremy Blackman, Michael Bowen. Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (1999, R)
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