Oscar Nominee! 3. Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix); Supporting Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman); Supporting Actress (Amy Adams).
“The Master is one of the great movies of the year — an ambitious, challenging project that picks seriously at knotty ideas about American personality, success, rootlessness, master-disciple dynamics, and father-son mutually assured destruction.
"Director Paul Thomas Anderson and his lead, Joaquin Phoenix, have managed the impossible: They’ve turned Thomas Pynchon’s work into a slapstick noir homage that doesn’t just reward but demands multiple viewings." - New York Daily News
"Somehow, 'Inherent Vice' director Paul Thomas Anderson ('Boogie Nights,' 'Magnolia') and his up-for-anything lead, Joaquin Phoenix, have managed the impossible. They’ve turned Thomas Pynchon’s work into a slapstick noir homage that doesn’t just reward but demands multiple viewings.