Variety
A groovy, richly funny stoner romp that has less in common with “The Big Lebowski” than with the strain of fatalistic, ’70s-era California noirs (“Chinatown,” “The Long Goodbye,” “Night Moves”)...
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Inherent Vice
Joaquin Phoenix reteams with The Master director P.T. Anderson to play pothead private investigator 'Doc' Sportello in a shaggy dog detective film set in 1969. Based on Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, co-starring Jena Malone, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro and Maya Rudolph.
2014Rating: R16, Sex scenes, offensive language and drug use149 minsUSA
ComedyFestival & Independent
- Director:
- Paul Thomas Anderson ('There Will be Blood', 'Boogie Nights')
- Writer:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cast:
- Joaquin PhoenixJena MaloneReese WitherspoonSasha PieterseJosh BrolinOwen WilsonWilson BethelBenicio Del ToroMaya RudolphMartin Short
Inherent Vice / Reviews
Total Film
If not quite on a par with PTA’s best, this is still a richly intoxicating brew of humour, violence and melancholy.
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It's a film you sink into, like a haze on the road, even as it jerks you along with spikes of humor.
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The Telegraph
As antic as Boogie Nights and Punch-Drunk Love, but with The Master and There Will Be Blood’s uncanny feel for the swell and ebb of history.
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The Guardian
Anderson has all manner of fun with the tale's whirling, blurring trajectory.
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The Dissolve
It all serves a portrait of 1970 California that mixes absurdity with an air of looming cataclysm...
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Empire Magazine
Just relax and let this beautiful, haunting, hilarious, chaotic, irritating and possibly profound tragicomedy wash over you. There is nothing else out there like it.
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