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Positive Reviews
180
Negative reviews
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3.8
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3.0
Defiant in the face of rapid digital conversion, Anderson gives celluloid the victory lap it deserves.
Av Club
4.5
Magicians rely on their audiences to complete their illusionsafter all, a trick doesnt work without the willful suspension of disbelief.
Av Club
2.0
For that matter, the movie may not even be fully comprehensible on first viewing, the bigger patterns in the narrative and the rhythms of the filmmaki ..
EW
3.1
The Master shows invention and curiosity.It is often spellbinding.
Rogerebert
4.0
Who to become.Its precisely because viewers will leave the film with weighty, even troubling, questions like these that The Master is a must see.
Common Sense Media
4.0
Yet even when the narrative drifts into increasingly ambiguous waters, the sheer brilliance of the filmmaking holds one rapt.
Variety
4.0
The Master isnt PTAs best film, but its clearly one that is to be commended for its performances and visuals.
We Got This Covered
4.8
The Master is a smaller film, a quiet and intimate character study with a much more streamlined thematic focus.
We Got This Covered
4.5
That doesnt mean Anderson has narrowed his scope or ambition: The Master is nothing short of an alternate history to the bobby socked, Panglossed Fift ..
Austin Chronicle
5.0
But you can understand why Anderson didnt want to get too bogged down in facts.
Time Out
3.0
Phoenix plays Quell with an alienating intensity; hes unpredictable from the first frame to the last.
Time Out
2.5
But where There Will Be Blood inspired awe, The Master inspires only mild curiosity, the feeling that something is missing.
3.1
The Master turns out to be more of a self defeating whimper than the big, important bang it could have been.
4.0
But take nothing away from The Master it is a strikingly well made film that pulls no creative punches.
Screen Daily
3.0
Anderson shunned digital video and shot The Master on rare 65mm film stock.
Vulture
4.0
This entire interlude at the store is one of the most beautifully directed scenes anyone could ever wish to see.
The Hollywood Reporter
4.0
Freddie is not a thoughtful man hes all instinct but Phoenixs every muscle movement animates Freddies inner workings.
4.6
Anyone with the opportunity should watch the film in its native format.
Paste Magazine
5.0
After one viewing, The Master already feels like a landmark American movie.
Telegraph
4.0
This is a superbly crafted film thats at times intentionally opaque, as if its creator didnt want us to see all the way into its heart of darkness.
2.5
Whatever the problem, whatever the ideal fix, this is at least the second and perhaps the third time that the dazzling invention of Anderson the direc ..
San Francisco Chronicle
5.0
An often brilliant 50s throwback character drama that never feels nostalgic, with terrific central performances and a luminous, unforgettable visual b ..
4.0
It gives the film a range of themes and some powerhouse scenes between the two, but also muddles its focus; The Master is beautiful and thought provok ..
Cinema Blend
4.0
Forget whatever weirdness hes done in the past; Freddy is his masterpiece of quirk.
Ny Daily News
4.5
Whatever The Cause is, and whether or not its good or bad is left up to the audience.
JoBlo
4.5
Advertising In the end, The Master may seem like a movie of more questions and suggestions than answers and clarity, but the sheer beauty of its compo ..
Screen Rant
5.0
At least, its an exhilarating demonstration of big screen moviemaking in dreamlike colours and a sense heightening 70 mm format.
The Globe And Mail
3.8
The actor brings this larger than life figure to life, conveying his force, his magnetism, but also the doubts, the paranoia lurking in the back of hi ..
Philly
4.0
An impressive mix of ingredients make this film so poignant and memorable.
Spirituality And Practice
3.0
Obviously a masterly piece of filmmaking....Even a flawed Anderson film is more interesting than most directors unequivocal triumphs.
One Guys Opinion
3.0
Its a film of breathtaking cinematic romanticism and near complete denial of conventional catharsis. You might wish it gave you more in terms of comfo ..
Village Voice
4.4
Anderson cunningly lets the viewer add the sinister here. We can ponder a group that sees value in collecting and guarding the secrets of its members, ..
Rogers Movie Nation
3.8
Andersons style, while visually and intellectually engaging, is clinical and distancing.
ReelViews
2.0
Paul Thomas Anderson writes and directs this Academy Award nominated drama about a US Navy veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder who s ..
Blu Ray
4.0
See our full review: Big boss man Paul Thomas Andersons The Master is a thinly veiled story of L. Ron Hubbard A self destructive loner (Joaquin Phoeni ..
Chicago Reader
5.0
The number of movie theaters that still have the technology to show films in this format is limited, but if you are able to see the film in that forma ..
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
The Master is the best American film of 2012 and the Blu ray combo pack serves it well.A
3.8
Sandler and Watsons palpable chemistry together surely plays a key role in the films success, while Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers precisely the sort ..
Reel Film Reviews
5.0
In terms of Oscar promise, The Master is the one to watch for this year, with two unparalleled performances from Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Ph ..
The Times
3.0
With almost no narrative progression, this film is basically a character study in which the main characters remain little changed and enigmatic.
Lariat
2.0
Plusjust so we dont look all serious here a little sex and plenty of tits and ass.
News Review
4.0
That said, its also sometimes laboriously slow and the script often feels like its taking a fairly roundabout and time consuming course just to get ba ..
Screen It
5.0
Fierce and ferociously funny, The Master is a great movie, the best of the year so far, and a new American classic.No way is it the kind of cinematic ..
Rolling Stone
5.0
The latest installment in Soul Jazz Records Boombox series, tracing the evolution of recorded rap in the late 70s and early 80s, provides us with the ..
Pop Matters
4.4
But Dodd isnt being mocked or debunked.Writer director Anderson (There Will Be Blood) has much bigger ideas than that.
News Day
2.0
It takes its own sweet time doing so.So many directors these days, especially American directors, dont have the patience to develop a scene, a mood.
Cs Monitor
4.4
Others may wish for a less enigmatic resolution of the widening gulf between The Master and Freddie.
New York Post
5.0
Hopefully it wont take Anderson another five years to finish his next film.
Film Journal International ..
4.5
The film is not an epic. Its not a masterpiece. But it is an involving study of men searching, searching for answers, for belonging, for a foothold in ..
Az Central
5.0
The Master continues this new phase of serious social themes; reasonably direct narrative; sublime, almost architectural framing; goose pimple soundsc ..
Boston
4.5
Instead, the writer director discovers his deeply buried themes as he makes his films, which is just one of many reasons why The Master will burrow it ..
Npr
3.5
This is, at heart, an engagingly strange movie, one that will bear far more contemplation than the film festival pace really allows.
Npr
4.4
Its a must see for serious film lovers and a steep challenge for everyone else.
Star Tribune
5.0
This is one of the years best films; its worth any effort needed to fully appreciate it.
Toronto Star
3.0
Andersons tale is a kind of tragic love story between Freddie and the Master.
Emanuellevy
5.0
It is a movie that may alienate and exasperate some, but its audacity, its formal daring and Joaquin Phoenixs performance, make it simply unmissable.
Guardian
5.0
What a ravishing, unashamedly old school American classic this is.
Guardian
4.5
For sure, this reinforces your scepticism; even when hes being kind, you look at him with narrowed eyes.
Guardian
4.4
In an age in which celebrity is prized above virtually all else, The Master holds a disturbing mirror up to our desire for easy answers and charismati ..
Q Network
4.0
The Master is often spectacular and never less than handsome, and it has numerous moments of disturbing and almost electrical power.
Salon
3.5
Its a movie that seems to unfold at a distance, aesthetically dazzling but emotionally remote.
Slate
5.0
He understands that the most sublime cinematic spectacle is the sight of the human face in all its exquisite detail.
Flim List
5.0
The absence from this fetish object of any human reality renders all the more poignant the tender manner with which Freddie then lies alongside her, d ..
Eye For Film
4.0
Phoenix delivers a wonderful performance, utterly filled with pain and conflict.
3.5
Susan Grangers review of The Master (The Weinstein Company) Paul Thomas Andersons artistically challenging character study is sure to be one of the mo ..
Susang Ranger
1.3
137 minutes of Joaquin Phoenixs nose hairs is not my idea of appetizing.
Observer
3.8
Its an actors showcase thats impeccably shot and beautifully projected on 70mm. Its a film students dream, an audiences challenge, and a worthy additi ..
Movies
5.0
In less accomplished cinematic hands, this level of ambiguity can often be dismissed as a filmmaker just not knowing what to say, or at least not will ..
Flim Threet
4.0
Where can the movie possibly go from here.In terms of dramatic logic, not far: Freddie has met his antithesis, the servant has fused with the master, ..
New Yorker
2.0
The eternal struggle between the satyr and the mystic in human nature is joined.
Boston Herald
3.5
Freddie,who doesnt have a family,has lost his love and doesnt believe in god,needs something to anchor him to life.
The New Indian Express
4.0
It is a film of impressions and notions, yearning and longing that takes the troubled, drifting soul of one man and finds in it reflections of a natio ..
Express
5.0
Then it chases its own tail a bit and settles for being merely a fascinating metaphoric father son relationship reaching endgame.It may not all work, ..
Chicago Tribune
5.0
A late attempt to finally brainwash Freddie never properly engages.The film remains, however, the most fascinating collection of loose ends you could ..
The Irish Times
4.5
Intelligent, chilly and fascinating, this uneven film didnt need 70 mm. Its a taut eye to eye war between Hoffman, magnificent as an egotist, and Phoe ..
Blogs Indie Wire
5.0
With potent performers and poetic visuals, Anderson has made the boldest American picture of the year.
Total Film
4.0
Its unbalanced title notwithstanding, The Master is a film of such dualities, in which Anderson commits more fully to the themes with which he toyed i ..
The Atlantic
4.0
Two fine performances bring what is sometimes a slightly lumbering but watchable movie alive.
Standard
2.0
As a high budget experiment in avant garde filmmaking, The Master is barely tolerable if not entirely watchable.Andersons ballyhooed process of shooti ..
Coles Mithey
3.0
Both Phoenix and Hoffman are on fire within their characters. If only theyd had some place to go.
Detroit News
4.3
That alone is fairly genius since its so rare in an artform where clear and concise storytelling is often preferable.
4.4
Like Andersons previous film, There Will Be Blood, The Master puts its primary focus on an unstoppable force meets immovable object war of wills betwe ..
Groucho Reviews
3.0
The Master, like Lancaster Dodd himself, offers up lots of talk and lots of sound and fury, but no answers, and it is one of the most frustrating expe ..
Hit Fix
4.0
In the end it may not have the emotional uplift the Academy or a popular mainstream audience craves, but make no mistake, this is an enthralling drama ..
Cnn
5.0
The Master is genuine walk the high wire without a net, swing for the fences filmmaking.
Aisle Seat
3.0
Two incredible performances from Hoffman and Phoenix are often all that saves The Master from collapsing in on itself.
Herald Sun
5.0
The composition of its images, its almost frightening insularity and the strangeness of its central performances are nothing short of mesmerizing.
Movie Habit
5.0
Its devastating.Though the movie does have the prescribed happy ending of propaganda, that didnt stop the U.S. government from blanching at its frankn ..
Film Freak Central
3.5
Its in the moments when these two actors fight, laugh, commune or defy each other that the film is most vital and out of control
Boxoffice Magazine
4.5
Marking Paul Thomas Andersons most cryptic work to date, this brilliantly shot, superbly acted and powerfully challenging film warrants multiple viewi ..
Film Ink
2.0
(The film likely wont feel too rewarding if you dont actually want to go deeper, however.)
Ner Dist
4.4
You might expect an epic, but in fact The Master is smaller. Its a meditation rather than a grand statement from one of our very best filmmakers.
Movies Tv Guide
3.5
The comparison is worth noting not only because between them Phoenix and Hoffman craft a fascinating interaction that the movie revolves around, but b ..
The Age
4.0
If Anderson can ever figure out how to tell a story he might make a really great film. In the meantime he continues to make quite interesting ones.
Maki At The Movies
4.0
This is a bold and ambitious drama about vilified outsiders who may just be kindred spirits.
Digital Spy
3.0
This is a rapturous cinematic experience, a spellbinding expression of shrouded ideas and exposed talent, top to bottom.
Tamp A Bay
3.8
It fits with previous acclaimed efforts Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood as an epic account of a shady subculture, rich in period detail and memo ..
Kansas City
5.0
Beautifully conceived imagery and remarkable, chilling performances guarantee that.
Red Eye Chicago
5.0
For film fans who have lost faith in the transportive power of cinema, The Master will make you a believer.
Stl Today
4.0
Now hes back with The Master and while the movie doesnt quite live up to Andersons Odin like standards, it still stands out as one of the most provoca ..
Stl Today
3.0
There are many reasons to see The Master, but if nothing else, see it for the two killer performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Cleve Land
4.5
Thats not to say that Anderson has abandoned visual storytelling; hes just being a bit more subtle about it.
Screen Crush
5.0
This is a glorious movie, an omnivorous, many coloured satire on the chameleon hued carnivores of our souls.
Ft
2.5
The Master is more tonally secure, but just as narratively gap toothed and unsatisfying, touching upon themes and figures without exploring them to an ..
Dustin Put Man
4.0
This is not a film to sit back and enjoy.It continually pokes us with pointed ideas that force us to think about who we are and how we approach our li ..
Contact Music
4.4
Defiantly uncommercial and deeply personal, The Master is more in this vein.
Larsen On Film
3.0
No doubt this film will have its defenders.And it does have its virtues, including Andersons ability to prickle you with discomfort and compel you wit ..
Hollywood And Fine
4.0
Rehearsals are soon to kick in and sources say hell struggle to combine both panto and Strictly should he advance in the competition.
The Sun
4.0
The Master marks Hoffmans fifth and most complete collaboration with Anderson.
Matts Movie Reviews
3.0
Dozens of so called critics have grandiosely labeled Paul Thomas Andersons The Master as the highest of high art, even though many of them freely admi ..
Patriot Ledger
3.5
A glorious work of technique... but not enough to answer the question that, crucially, goes not only unanswered but unasked: why are we bothering to w ..
Antagony & Ecstasy
5.0
1 of 3 View Caption This film image released by The Weinstein Company shows Amy Adams, left, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, center, in a scene from The T ..
Sltrib
2.0
The film draws much strength from the exceptional performances of both Phoenix and Hoffman and the riveting interplay between their characters.
The Film Pie
4.4
Phoenix is the viper in the garden; Hoffman is the silver tongued snake charmer.
Js Online
3.0
The Master Synopsis A 1950s set drama centered on the relationship between a charismatic intellectual known as the Master (Hoffman) whose faith based ..
Movie Web
5.0
It is easily the best performance of the year and I dont think there will be a better one in the next four months.
Hollywood Chicago
4.5
Hes the mess that the narrative requires and Phoenix really delivers.
Cinemix Tape
5.0
Things you dont necessarily talk about, things you dont even necessarily think about.
Montreal Film Journal
5.0
It may not be a perfect film, but it compels and intoxicates in ways that only the best directors know how.
The Shiz Nit
4.0
Its topped by three chameleonic performances, though will prove a hard sell outside of the art house precisely because it denies the very notions that ..
What Culture
5.0
The first time watching is like breezing past a piece of beautiful art, being stunned, uncertain and intrigued by it. The second time can only encoura ..
Mercury News
5.0
Theres so much to adore here: the dead on 50s detail; temporal shifts as dizzying as Freddies homemade booze; Jonny Greenwoods unnerving cacophony of ..
The Skinny
3.0
Indeed, the fact that The Master often plays like a wily and somewhat smug piece of meta filmmaking a self reflexive comment on cult of the director a ..
Scots Man
4.0
Andersons first film in five years, The Master, is another sweeping perambulation, a boldly ambitious piece of filmmaking that is brilliantly acted, w ..
Scots Man
4.4
Does that brand of cinematic truth butt heads with most everything we love about cinematic storytelling
Scene Stealers
4.0
The Master is a psychologically rich movie: a film that excavates without damaging the delicate facades of its characters.
The Ooh Tray
4.5
Feral, hunched, his face like a clenched fist, Phoenixs Freddie is inarticulate and blocked where Hoffmans Dodd is extravagant, loquacious and smooth, ..
What So
4.0
Ultimately, its a movie about the right brain, the left brain and all the toxins of life that swim between them.
Or Lando Weekly
4.0
For a movie with not a lot of plot, or much of a point, The Master is nevertheless mesmerizing, especially in its first half.
reason
2.0
Thank you! If you had asked me this question a few years ago I would have told you to continue to stand up for yourself, seek justice and fight for wh ..
Lainey Gossip
5.0
Its a miracle, then, that in the face of all this baggage, The Master should be as exquisite as it is.
Streaming Quickflix
5.0
Freddie is ruled by nothing but emotions, and The Master is awash in repressed sexuality.
Wsj
3.1
Its obviously a work of passion for its creator, who stages it with his typical flair and inventiveness. And yet it never quite persuades us to believ ..
Clclt
1.5
There seems to be a large gap in the third act of either material deleted to shorten the film or Anderson simply never worked it out. But dont get me ..
3.1
The Master merely ends up being a reminder that performances can take a film pretty far, but they cant make up for poor writing.
2.0
Im brooding, but I dont think Im confused.One may admire The Master for its scope, style, and maybe some of the acting, but its vision is myopic.
Tony Mack
3.0
Its worth checking out for the buzz surrounding it, as well as the great performances, but dont be surprised if it appears to go off the rails at time ..
Fat Guys At The Movies
3.5
It is a truly stunning film, but one that ultimately proves a whirling and directionless clutter of themes from which little substance can be extracte ..
Concrete Play Ground
1.5
This didnt have to be a film about Scientology; it should have been a diagnosis of America ruined by kinds of belief that have gone mad and ecstatic w ..
New Republic
4.0
It isnt a great film but it has a great film rattling around inside it, the story of deadlocked Freddie Quell, a dynamic study in stasis.
Bfi
3.5
There are gaping chasms in the story and side stories that go nowhere. Yet the power of Hoffmans performance is so hypnotic you forgive the films faul ..
Tiny Url
4.0
Straddling a shorter time frame than There Will Be Blood and focusing on a relationship rather than the foundations of American capitalism The Master ..
Fan The Fire Magazine
4.0
My use of hyperbole is no match for Andersons grandiose ambition.
Fan The Fire Magazine
3.0
The problem with The Master is that it doesnt extend or expand Andersons artistic journey.
Entertainment Time
5.0
A bit long, but this character driven story loosely based on L. Ron Hubbard and the dare we say invention of Scientology is riveting.
Tri City Herald
5.0
Anderson has achieved his mid century epic, and in its pure 65mm sumptuousness, the great American movie.
Boston Phoenix
2.0
At once explosive and ramshackle, unpredictable and expertly modulated, its a magnetic performance thats nothing short of primal, and masterful.
Nicks Chager
3.0
It takes a certain level of genius to take a perfectly interesting and timely subject and make it significantly uninteresting, unengaging and aimless.
Reel Talk Online
4.4
The Master is intelligent, ambitious and cause for celebration but not quite the masterpiece suggested by all the buzz.
Sf Examiner
3.1
This movie defies the usual fresh or rotten dichotomy. Its an awesome feat of filmmaking, but so opaque that it keeps you at a remove and proves hard ..
Am Ny
4.5
The Master features two of the years best performances and possibly two of the best performances that this reviewer has ever witnessed.
Graffiti With Punctuation
4.0
But it winds up nowhere.The cast is large but only three actors carry any weight.
Honey Cutts Hollywood
4.0
The answer is up to audiences, but this is brave, fiery filmmaking; often beautiful to look at it in its evocation of 50s America, but unnerving in ma ..
Sky
4.5
This is clearly not a film for everyone, but the magnetic performances of the actors is undeniable.
Kaplan Vs Kaplan
4.0
Joaquin Phoenix is fantastic and never loses the unsympathetic character of Quell.
Film Festival Today
3.8
But its a tough movie to sit through; its long and you will squirm around because its not Batman.Will I ever see it again
Schmoes Know
3.0
Andersons style is clearly epic in scope, but his narrative approach is ambiguous, opaque and chillingly detached.
Metro Times
3.1
It may be a cathartic breakthrough for the actors, but not the audience.
Film Forward
4.4
Anderson, long a master himself of technique and tone, has created a startling, stunningly gorgeous film shot in lushly vibrant 65mm, with powerful pe ..
Ut Sandiego
4.0
The film is over 2 hours long, and whether the running time feels long will entirely depend on how the viewer responds to Paul Thomas Andersons narrat ..
Hey U Guys
2.0
A metaphor about post WWII America, overwhelmed by its own success, audacious, overconfident, careless, struggling between head and heart, past and fu ..
Movie Mom
4.5
As Freddie, Joaquin Phoenix is entirely transformed its a magnificent performance of remarkable physicality.
Movie Line
4.0
The Master never presents any definitive explanation for why Freddie would be drawn to The Cause.
Cinema Autopsy
4.0
Its a tough movie to watch, stark and painful at heart, yet impossibly beautiful on its surface.
Bad Ass Digest
4.0
Paul Thomas Anderson is obviously at the height of his powers right now, and he has crafted a character piece that is enthralling and engulfing.
Bad Ass Digest
2.0
This is the kind of film for cinephiles.You are expected to love it, but it sometimes left me scratching my head.
Birmingham Mail
3.0
What a compassionate conclusion.Andersons storytelling here and yes, the more I think about it, the more I admire this story is the work of a man with ..
Looking Closer
4.0
Here is a movie that gazes into the churning waves as if looking into a mirror, while making dirty minded, farcical tragedy out of the wish that we, t ..
The Nation
5.0
Its a fascinating duel of ideals and Andersons writing is potent and brought to life by amazing performances.
The Popcorn Junkie
3.5
The Master is ambitious, grave, inventive, flawed, and best of all, its a sad story about a very sad man.
Bangkok Post
3.0
This time, however, it does come at the price of alienating audiences with a drama not nearly as narrative driven as his others and one that will easi ..
Sa Current
3.0
It vexes and dares, it frustrates and goads, but it is powerful and singular and doesnt leave your mind easily.
Blog Oregonlive
4.0
It aint exactly uplifting, and The Master will frustrate some with its almost deliberate avoidance of resolution.
Blogs Houston Press
5.0
Even if I dont always understand them, these people fascinated, appalled and finally moved me, and Anderson has created a richly layered, believable w ..
Host Madison
4.5
David Cronenbergs take on the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jungis not just a fascinating look back at the developments of psychotherapy ..
The Movie Minute
4.5
But The Master, while probably not Andersons best film, may be remembered as his most important and unarguably most ambitious.
Screen Space(Squarespace)
4.0
Its a marvel to watch an actor pack so much raw and twisted emotion deep into a character and watch the reaction burn from the inside out.
Fox News
4.4
The Master more or less divides the increasingly wealthy, deranged and alcoholic Daniel Day Lewis character from There Will Be Blood into two entities ..
Commercial Appeal (Memphis ..
4.0
Theres a cynical bent to much of the films latter half confrontations but The Master ultimately isnt The Paul Thomas Anderson Scientology Movie as muc ..
Chud
5.0
It is something more interesting: a free standing work of the imagination, a contemplative fiction.
Ny Books
3.5
It is emphatically not a big, loud exclamation mark movie a la There Will Be Blood (though it actually features louder, crazier yelling), and is defin ..
Mubi
4.5
The absence from this fetish object of any human reality renders all the more poignant the tender manner with which Freddie then lies alongside her, d ..
Projected Figures
3.1
Aiming for epic, its undeniably thought provoking, but too ambiguous to fully satisfy.
Rss Feeds Usa Today
1.5
Get ready for the first big, vaunted, art house movie heavily lauded as a masterpiece and Oscar contender that will leave you wondering what all the h ..
3.0
Entrancing from first frame to last. The lights go down, they come up 137 minutes later, and youre left to ask yourself: What on earth did I just see
Dallas News
4.5
Its not a big narrative tale.But its like a pure narcotic, so strong that it needs to be cut to be consumed safely.
Movie City News
2.0
The at times impenetrable film will require multiple viewings to fully appreciate the multitude of themes and subtext.
Events Austin 360
3.0
This is more character study than story. Yet, it feels as shallow as The Cause itself, as maddeningly opaque as Dodds motivations.
Un Cut
3.0
They are epic, and its too bad the film itself doesnt go deep enough with its narrative.
Tucson Weekly
2.5
The performances by Hoffman and Phoenix are compelling, but the storyline surrounding their father son dynamic is not.
Atlantic City Weekly
2.0
Anderson is almost defiantly opposed to conventional narrative in The Master.
Deads
2.5
Great performances and visuals, but painfully slow and not much happens. Not Andersons best work
Technology Tell
2.0
THE MASTER is brilliant and/or confounding and/or terrible. It may be talked about for the ages or forgotten in a few years. It may be a masterpiece, ..
ScreenAnarchy
1.8
As Hoffmans Master strives to impress w/eloquent language, fine suits and psychic parlor tricks, serving as cerebral misdirection, so too does Anderso ..
3.0
I foresee deserved Academy Award nominations for its lead performances and in technical categories including art direction, cinematography and costume ..
Movie Dearest Blog Spot
5.0
Whats most ironic is that timelessness is among the films most pervasive themes.
Ask Men
2.0
Theres less and less room in American cinema for the kind of adult oriented filmmaking Anderson favors.
Gay City News
3.0
Its beautiful to look at, and Joaquins snarl lipped, sex obsessed simpleton is endlessly entertaining.
Filmdrunk Uproxx
5.0
A dense, baffling, thoroughly original epic that seems to divide viewers on the simple question of what its supposed to be about.
Time Out Chicago
4.5
For me, it is a masterpiece, a visually stunning explosion of pure cinema, emotionally charged with a penetrating psychological punch. If you are bore ..
UTV
3.0
Phoenix is back in a behemothic way with his magnum opus in The Master, a blindingly brilliant character study from cinemas most prodigiously skilled ..
3.0
THE MASTER is a brilliant film. THE MASTER is a confounding film. The Master is a terrible film. THE MASTER may talked about for the ages or forgotten ..
Film Fest
4.5
the film has a lot to say about the nature of religious belief, the personalities of radical followers and generally the functioning of cults
Groups Google
2.5
The Master is less than the sum of its parts, but, oh, what parts they are.
Philadelphia City Paper
4.0
Even if The Master is just a vehicle for the performances, Id wager theyre so fine that you wont mind the winding, meandering storytelling and the occ ..
Shotgun Critic
5.0
Low Tide (Roberto Minervini) This quiet film captures a powerful tale of solitude and neglect.
Dazed Digital
5.0
Even with all of Andersons musical and cinematographic accouterments, the performances and the narrative structure feels completely unaffected by the ..
Cele Buzz
4.5
Rather its a struggle between two very different men striving to define their barely grasped humanity.
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