Movie Review: ?The Master? | Gay Richmond News, Entertainment ...

This is the most painfully pretentious film since ?Tree of Life.?

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?The Master.? Photo Credit: The Weinstein Company.

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Joaquin Phoenix returns to the screen as an extremely troubled WWII vet, who falls in with a religious cult leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman). The somber tone that pervades this film would have you believe that it?s an important piece of masterful filmmaking. Although director Paul Thomas Anderson possesses a confident hand, the story is simply too oblique to be satisfying. Basically, this is an intense character study about two men who aren?t very likable. Phoenix is mannered and manic, while Hoffman quietly commands the screen. This is the most painfully pretentious film since ?Tree of Life.?

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