Review of Magnolia

Magnolia (1999)
2/10
A plague of frogs on P.T. Barnum/Anderson
20 August 2003
I wouldn't hate Anderson so much if he didn't create occasional scenes of perfection- but they're embedded in silly assemblages trying to pass as plots. His characters are mostly immersed in agony and confusion, which is sometimes fairly realistic and empathetic, but the few scenes of solace or hope or awareness are weak- almost inconsequential.

His movies combine the worst features of Altman and Tarantino with almost none of the good ones.
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