Magnolia

Pros: acting music
Cons: frogs

was a great start to a so so film. The beginning of this film made me think that this was going to be a great film, that somehow after watching this, my life would somehow be better. I was wrong.
I don't want you to think that I did not like...

Pros: funny surprise at the end
Cons: boring, long and pointless

This movie was a waste of money. Basically, it has no real plot, though there is one very surreal climax at the end. However, I wasted almost seven dollars and three hours of a perfectly good Saturday evening to see this waste of celluloid.

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Pros: Tom Cruise
Cons: Everything else

I did not like this movie. ( I want to say "hate" but I think epinions.com frowns on that word) It was pure torture for me to sit through 3 hours of this movie. It was convoluted and disjointed, which I'm sure it was meant to be. But I thought,...

Pros: Good acting, a few entertaining scenes
Cons: No plot, deplorable characters

Magnolia is just another one of those artsy movies that tries to be original and different than the standard movies.

The 1990's saw an emergence of antipathy towards traditional movies. Everyone wanted to create a low budget independent film...

Pros: great cast, moving, extensive plot
Cons: long running, offensive to some

I greatly enjoyed seeing this movie. Not just because of the wonderful performances by the various actors, but also because of the variety of plot material. The story centers around several independent groups of people (a dying man, his wife, his nurse...

Pros: Interesting special effects
Cons: plot, tone

Magnolia has all the ingredients necessary for a fascinating tapestry of intertwined lives and characters. The cast is first rate - Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, and Philip Seymour Hoffman among them. The movie teases like it might feel a...

Pros: acting, special effects
Cons: may be confusing due to many storylines at once

Anything can happen, and does on this tale of a group of misfits living their lives in the most unusual of ways. There are three pairs of show-biz fathers and their kids, A producer(Earl Partridge) on his death bed and his abandoned Teleavangalist...

Pros: Acting, style of the people
Cons: A bit long

Not many films that I have seen have captured the emotional quality that Magnolia does. This movie is about nine people, who, in their own way, are seeking love and redemption, whether they know it or not. The highlight is that there is no main...

Pros: amazing cinematography
Cons: to wide of a focus

This is a big sprawling romp of a movie, seemingly trying to tell the story of every resident of Los Angeles, all at once. The film is amazing, and the soundtrack is amazing, and the cinematography is excellent, and the only thing holding this back...

Pros: not much great about this movie
Cons: boring

With such a wealth of talent involved, it's a shame that the result is a very unpleasant film.
The theme, if you dig hard enough to find one, is that chance and coincidence play an important part in most people's lives. Different and seemingly...

Pros: Interesting
Cons: three and a half hours

"Magnolia" is an interesting movie that like some other recent Tom Cruise movies, like "Eyes Wide Shut," is hard to follow at first. Bazaar coincidences throw people together in strange ways. Some people die, some go crazy, and it...

Pros: Decent acting, funny introduction.
Cons: Plotless, pointless, dragged on for three hours!

I went into this movie, completely in the dark, not knowing what it was about. My date said it'll be a good movie, Tom Cruise was in it. Unfortunately for him, I'm not a fan of Cruise. Now, let me preface, the acting in this movie was good. Not...

Pros: interesting characters, great music
Cons: over 3 hours long, not for the faint of heart

Magnolia invites comparison to Short Cuts. This would not be
completely accurate, since Short Cuts tied everything together
at the end. Some things are tied up here, but not too neatly.
Life doesn't tie itself up neatly. In fact, very...

Pros: funny, good acting
Cons: long kinda boring

The movie Magnolia is in a class by itself. The movie is about a bunch of random people, who's lives are all effected by each other. Many dont even know the others directly, only through other people, like a six degrees thing. The movie goes from...

Pros: The writing and the direction of this movies was great
Cons: a lot of sexual content..not for me, but for some audiences. Not a family movie!!!!!

Magnolia : Like a Cyclone roller coaster ride for the brain, Magnolia is an intensely thought provoking film. This movie reaches into your psyche and exposes disturbing issues that may have touched every one of us in some fashion during our lifetime....