Hard Eight
1996 · Paul Thomas Anderson
His lean Reno-noir debut — Philip Baker Hall's quiet gambler.
Find it on Amazon →Boogie Nights
1997 · Paul Thomas Anderson
The porn-industry epic — a whole ensemble of American yearning.
Find it on Amazon →Magnolia
1999 · Paul Thomas Anderson
Interlocking Valley lives, raining frogs — his most operatic swing.
Find it on Amazon →Punch-Drunk Love
2002 · Paul Thomas Anderson
Sandler's lonely rage-romance — bruised, tender and strange.
Find it on Amazon →There Will Be Blood
2007 · Paul Thomas Anderson
Day-Lewis drills into the American soul — a milkshake of malevolence.
Find it on Amazon →The Master
2012 · Paul Thomas Anderson
A drifter and a cult leader circle each other — hypnotic and unresolved.
Find it on Amazon →Inherent Vice
2014 · Paul Thomas Anderson
A stoned-detective haze through 1970 LA — shaggy and sublime.
Find it on Amazon →Phantom Thread
2017 · Paul Thomas Anderson
Couture, control and poison mushrooms — his most deliciously precise.
Find it on Amazon →Licorice Pizza
2021 · Paul Thomas Anderson
First love zigzagging through '70s LA — loose, warm and alive.
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