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The Master (2012)
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Joaquin Phoenix's restless body and Philip Seymour Hoffman's cultivated authority make a fascinating unequal pair. Paul Thomas Anderson refuses to turn that fascination into a comforting diagnosis. The withholding is part of its artistic force, but viewers needing cumulative emotional clarity may admire the encounters more readily than the whole.
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Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.