Magnolia

Magnolia (1999)

  • 83% of critics liked it
    (139 reviews)

  • 88% of users liked it
    (164,188 ratings)

An intriguing and entertaining study in characters going through varying levels of crisis and introspection. This psychological drama leads you in several different directions, weaving and intersecting various subplots and characters, from a brilliant Tom Cruise, as a self-proclaimed pied-piper, to… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Paul Thomas Anderson
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Dec 17, 1999 Wide
New Line Cinema

Critic Reviews

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    A wonderful mess.

  • Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

    What this film may have needed to get on its feet is some honest-to-goodness violence.

  • Derek Adams, Time Out

    One of the most enthralling and exhilarating American movies in ages.

  • Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle

    All the work is top-notch.

  • Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

    You don't have to like everything [Anderson] does, but if you enjoy seeing the walls rattled and the roof raised in the Hollywood citadel, you've got to love it.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Emil K


    One of the most accomplished and greatest achievements in the career of Paul Thomas Anderson. Magnolia is an unforgettable in it's presentation and also very touching experience to sit through. Anderson's own magnum opus reaches in so many different directions and at times… More

  • Nate Z


    [font=Arial][color=darkred]Absa-f***in'-brillaint.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=darkred]Nate's Grade: A[/color][/font]

  • Lucas M


    A realist and surrealist ambitious work by P.T., Magnolia it's the Short Cuts from the end of 90's and a more serious version of Happiness.

  • Melvin W


    Claudia Wilson Gator: I'll tell you everything, and you tell me everything, and maybe we can get through all the piss and shit and lies that kill other people.  "Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours." Magnolia is a good example for why Paul… More

  • Kevin C


    Exhausting and occasionally melodramatic, but completely stunning in its acute attention to detail, fascinating characters, and just about everything else that qualifies a film as "stunning."

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