peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2013 02 22 Magnolia

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Paul Thomas Anderson's finest, even now. Somehow he extracted excellent performances from the entirety of a large cast, including Tom Cruise. I grant that it flags a little towards the end. Apparently I haven't seen this since 2006 but I remembered almost all of it.

And the book says: "We may be through with the past... but the past is not through with us!"