But "The Master" is not an expose, not a historical record of the Cause, Scientology or any other group and not really the story of its characters, who remain enigmatic to the end. 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. The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review.
Anderson has within living memory knocked us for. Chris Stuckmann reviews The Master, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix in "The Master."Credit.
What's it like to be a lost soul who finds someone who says you can be saved, only to discover that he may not hold the answer, after all (and maybe never did) -- and that. In fact, it's much more damaging to the rest of us. TORONTO — If you've heard of The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film showing here at the Toronto International Film Festival, you've probably heard about it as the scientology movie. Going back and looking at the movie and researching L. Ron Hubbard it also makes sense for Anderson to split the Master character's duality into two separate characters as Hubbard seems very clearly to have been a split personality character. Review for the film " The Master".
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The Master talks about dragons—how his own dragon was fearsome and uncontrollable until he learned how to tame the beast—teaching it to sit and stay. The both of them, however, are volatile. Lancaster's wife Mary (Amy Adams) does not occupy.
But while the Bond film flies by, when The Master finally grinds to its end, you may feel Five years after his Oscar-nominated There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's latest epic is attracting five-star reviews and predictions of Oscar. Check out the exclusive TVGuide.com movie review and see our movie rating for The Master. As long as a year before it finally hit screens, the buzz surrounding Paul Thomas Anderson's sixth movie, The Master, was that it would be a veiled expose/attack on Scientology, but the film itself turns out to. When The Master came out last week, quite a few of the reviews included some kind of disclaimer about needing to see the movie again before forming a solid opinion.