Freddie Quell is a troubled, boozy drifter struggling with the trauma of World War II and whatever inner demons ruled his life before that. He is unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
21 August 1975, Casablanca, Morocco
4 January 1980, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
23 January 1955, Manhattan, New York, USA
31 August 1981, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
June 7, 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
16 February 1935, New York City, New York, USA
21 October 1960, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
25 April 1984, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
May 10, 2016
The Master is ambitious, grave, inventive, flawed, and best of all, it's a sad story about a very sad man.
January 08, 2013
[A] challenging, psychologically fraught drama.
September 23, 2012
The actors' commitment to their roles is impressive, but it's tethered to a weightless, airless movie, a film so enamored of itself, the audience gets shut out.
June 14, 2013
It's a mess; it's pretentious; it is thundery with dismay.
September 22, 2012
The Master may go down as one of Paul Thomas Anderson's most compelling works for two simple reasons: Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
June 23, 2013
There is so much spark here, so much to absorb, that the effect defies any picking of nits and just makes one grateful.
May 26, 2013
A perverted sausage party in which Anderson fully indulges his obsession with male genitalia.
May 12, 2015
It's a singular vision, and the movie haunts.
April 15, 2016
Joaquin Phoenix's performance is dazzling, the kind of effort we're lucky to see once every two or three years.
January 08, 2013
In the end it may not have the emotional uplift the Academy or a popular mainstream audience craves, but make no mistake, this is an enthralling drama about a peculiarly American restlessness, and the striving for insight and grace.
September 21, 2012
Where There Will Be Blood transmuted sullen earth into flame and launched it violently skyward, The Master is, as its opening shot advertises, a more fluid undertaking, a story of ebb and flow.
