Paul Thomas Anderson doesn't make movies with easily discernible "messages", more interested in full and intriguing characters and situations. He's found them in The Master, a character study of two men with truly wonderful names: Freddy Quell and Lancaster Dodd.
Played with chameleonic fervor by Joaquin Phoenix, Freddy returns from WWII addicted to sex…
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