Magnolia

Paul Thomas Anderson is a gift to all humanity. I’m really starting to consider him as my favorite director of all time, everything I’ve seen of his is flawless, and Magnolia is no exception. With so much going on and so many characters to keep up with, it can be hard for a director to make you care about all of them, but PTA makes you not only feel for them, but feel with them. Melora Walters and John C. Reilly as Claudia and Jim respectively were revelations, they were SO GOOD, and don’t even get me started on Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, and basically everyone else in this film because they all knocked it out of the park.