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The Horror Of The Ordinary: Punch Drunk Love At 20

Paul Thomas Anderson's strange romance Punch Drunk Love is a love story, but it's also a horror film about the everyday - a celebration of the creeping anxiety that colours our life, finds Eli Goldstone
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Stumblin’ In: Licorice Pizza And Paul Thomas Anderson’s Young Loves

Paul Thomas Anderson's new film centres on two young, chaotic people falling in love – in keeping with the filmmaker's longstanding preoccupation with the messy quagmire of relationships, finds Sam Moore
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I Wish I Was Special: The Irony Of Anima

Thom Yorke's latest project warns of the dangers of cultural overconsumption, but the very nature of its existence poses an unavoidable tension, finds Thomas H. Sheriff
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Old Clothes, New Europe: Phantom Thread’s Hidden Histories

In Paul Thomas Anderson's latest, David Hering detects an uneasy dialectic of Anglo-European relations beneath the film's sumptuous exterior (contains SPOILERS)
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Scientology Fiction? The Master Reviewed

Our Boston, MA correspondent Craig Terlino ponders the basis of modern US cinema great Paul Thomas Anderson's sixth feature, which opens as a 70mm presentation at the Odeon West End in London this Friday, before going on regular nationwide theatrical release from November 16
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Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York Reviewed

Only Charlie Kaufman could make a film which manages to undermine itself. Dave Moats examines this fascinating disaster

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