Pros: brilliant performances, interconnectedness, compassionate outlook Cons: some violence, considerable lewdness, prolific profanity
I wasn’t sure what I would think of Magnolia when I set out to watch it last week. I’d heard of the movie but didn’t have any idea what it was about, only that it was stylistically unusual. When my brother’s friend Ian, who had brought it over, ...
Pros: Admission for one to a 3-hour film: $8.50; understanding you are not alone: priceless Cons: The storm scene is difficult for most to understand
Our pain always seems deeper and more vivid to us than the despair of others; it is hard to concretely appreciate the angst others experience around us. Every day, our lives intersect with hundreds of other lives. Can it be possible that these souls...
Pros: P.T. Anderson's Script/Direction, Look, Mood, Editing, Score, & Ensemble Cast. Cons: None, Though Some Might Not like the 3 Hour, 15 Minute Time Running.
After the success of the 1997 porno-drama Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson was clearly becoming one of the newest and brightest of film directors in bringing an alternative to the post-Tarantino world of violence. The success of Boogie ...
Pros: Some stunning scenes with great acting. Cons: When out of ideas, throw in an biblical plague.
Madame Rose called this morning. Margo Channing has been bad mouthing me and my infomercial ventures to the trades again so it's time to mount a counterattack in earnest. I was all for calling a press conference to denounce the harpy publicly as a...
Pros: It was one of the best films of 1999. The cast, the screenplay, the direction, the score, all incredible. Cons: However, the pacing is a bit slow at times and the scene with Julianne Moore saying "Shut the f--k up" over and over again did try me.
There is the story of a boy genius, Stanley Spector. And the game show host, Jimmy Gator. And the ex-boy genius, "Quiz Kid" Donnie Smith. There is the story of the dying man, Earl Partridge. His lost son, Frank T.J. Mackey. And the dying...
Pros: The most ambitious and successful movie of 1999 leaps off the screen like a soaring opera Cons: The much-touted soundtrack is, at times, a big distraction
Magnolia plows through its three hours like a student driver: fast, swerving, careening off guardrails and finally coming to a sudden stop, the director’s hands white-knuckled on the steering wheel. P.T. Anderson (who also directed the similarly...
Pros: Aimee Mann gets a record contract again Cons: confused and pretentious gibbering - ironic that it is now being reviewed with confused and pretentious gibbering, is it not?
"Audacious and bold," the critics cry; sounding their barbaric yawps from the rooftops of the world - proclaiming for all that will listen that P.T. Anderson is a force to be reckoned with, a voice of a new generation of filmmakers that...
This is a great big bubbling stew of a movie, and director P.T. Anderson ("Boogie Nights") is an exuberant cook, throwing in ingredients no one has thought to combine before: heaping cups of Robert Altman-style interwoven stories -- seasoned with a...
Pros: Script, amazing cast, cinematography, intriguing, some good direction Cons: Way too long, pacing problems
"Magnolia" (1999) Review by Marshall Garvey Rating (0 to 5): 4 Credits: Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Written by Anderson Produced by Anderson and Joanne Sellar Original music by Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, and Aimee Mann New Line ...
Pros: Many fine performances, wonderful soundtrack Cons: Many tedious, redundant scenes
Magnolia's trailer is brilliant, about the best I've seen. It presents intriguing little bios: a boy genius, a dying man, a prodigal son, a cop in love, and more. In under three minutes, we begin to know at least eight people, and what's more, we begin...
Pros: There is no distinctive "pro", you either like it all or you hate it Cons: If you hate it, it is three hours of hating
"Magnolia" is one of the strangest movies I have ever seen. The first twenty minutes are a maelstrom of new characters, plot introductions and scene shifts that make no sense. I'd like to say that if you get through the first twenty minutes,...
Pros: performance of the overrated short guy (Tom Cruise), sound track Cons: Dare I say it was TOO LONG? (Boring) and a waste of several fine actors who didn't add value to the movie overall
PT Anderson in his first appearance in The "Magnolia Diary" states that he wrote most of the screenplay for this movie in Bill Macey's cabin in the woods. Because of a snake outside the cabin, he stayed inside and wrote frantically for two...
Pros: Brilliant in all aspects. Cons: Pretentious and long.
P.T. Anderson's Magnolia is one of the most ambivalently received movies of all time. Most people either love it or hate it -- there is little middle ground.
Those who hate the film bash it for being too long, pretentious and...
Pros: artistic vision, carried off! Cons: One character too many (the braces guy)
Welcome to the world we live in. Welcome to heartbreak upon heartbreak as coincidence and serendipity smashes and crashes in on reality until the heaviness of it all, the weight of its poignancy, seems unbearable – even fantastical. “Magnolia” peeks,...
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