Magnolia (1999)
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Reviews Counted:136
Fresh:113
Rotten:23
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: Critics say Magnolia is an ambitious, lengthy work that ultimately succeeds due to the interesting stories and excellent ensemble performances.
Synopsis: In a single day in Los Angeles, a number of interconnected lives are changed forever. A lonely police officer (John C. Reilly) falls in love with a disturbed cocaine addict (Melora Walters). Her... [More]
Reviews for Magnolia
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"Days of Our Lives" with better production values. Full Review |
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A powerful drama of intertwined stories that contemplates the co-existence of the past with our present and future. Full Review |
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A- |
Just as something so reliably surprising as the weather can modify people's behavior, "Magnolia" encompasses an inter-connective human bond that accepts reality's blind spots. Purity of intention, as the story suggests, is a happy accident that can hit ev Full Review |
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A wonderful mess. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Magnolia's finest achievement is the sheer ambition running through every vein. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Undeniably one of the most emotionally-draining films ever made... Full Review |
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82/100 |
There's a lot of really neat, cool honestly imaginative stuff in Magnolia, but it's hardly the best movie I've seen in the past month. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Magnolia is a mess, but it's somehow encouraging: It takes a gifted director to make a movie this extravagantly foolish. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Easily one of the best of the year. Full Review |
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What this film may have needed to get on its feet is some honest-to-goodness violence. Full Review |
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One of the most enthralling and exhilarating American movies in ages. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
A bold move for Anderson, an amazing display of acting for Tom Cruise, and one of the best films of 1999. Full Review |
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All the work is top-notch. Full Review |
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A |
I think Flannery O'Connor's philosophy -- that a desensitized culture sometimes need exaggerated, loud storytelling to reawaken it -- is the operating principle here. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Marks the arrival of a great, if not the greatest, modern director Full Review |
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3/4 |
Anderson's movie has the audacity to expose the ugliness within a society that worships power and cherishes materialism. Full Review |
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A |
If it is emotional cinema you seek then this, my friends, is for you. Full Review |
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4/5 |
If any film could be described as 'art for art's sake,' it would be Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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