“Inherent Vice” works best as a “go with the flow” experience. To enjoy, it calls for surrender to its irreverent mockery and its illogical juxtapositions

| May 21, 2024

…the fun here is in collecting the salty, elusive details, not what they add up to…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2023

It wants the viewer to experience it more than understand it, and the experience proves a hallucinatory, often hilarious, and fulfilling one as both entertainment and carefully constructed comic art.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 13, 2022

"Joaquin Phoenix delivers yet another iconic performance in 'Inherent Vice' and has now become one the most charismatic actors of the last 20 years."

| Jun 27, 2022

That the film can be enjoyed as a stoner comedy, a social critique and a classic noir is a testament to its immaculate construction.

| Original Score: 10/10 | May 17, 2022

PTA's best work comes from the characters being as lost as the audience. Joaquin Phoenix is enormous in this ode to seventies Los Angeles. Full review in Spanish

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 7, 2022

No one word that can encompass all of LA, but with 'Inherent Vice,' Anderson adds a couple of crucial sentences to its definition.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 16, 2021

Inherent Vice is crazy good, an adrenalized road trip / journey into the guts of 70's LA. Joaquin Phoenix's Oscar shot, and Paul Thomas Anderson continues his winning ways. Far out.

| Oct 7, 2021

As Sportello, Phoenix is deliciously off-kilter, stumbling through a city that's lit in shades of neon by cinematographer Robert Elswit...

| Oct 7, 2021

Inherent Vice is a tough nut to crack. It's as if, in striving to navigate the tonal intricacies of Pynchon's style, Anderson misses the joy of his best work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2021

The filmmaker's banal concentration on the "love story" goes hand in hand with the decision to give Inherent Vice as a whole a drug-induced feeling, as though the camera and the pacing were under the influence.

| Feb 12, 2021

The wonky tone, spread throughout the movie's 148 minute running time, feels like an extended joke the audience isn't always in on. When it works, it hums along, like a strange but enjoyable dream. When it doesn't, it's nightmarishly incoherent.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 2, 2021

The originality remains largely intangible, unable to find a voice of its own amid the plentiful derivative devices in play.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 4, 2020

This is a Paul Thomas Anderson film and, yeah, he's done it again.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 12, 2020

Inherent Vice is a movie best lived as an experience. Sit back and let Anderson take you on a ride hazy ride, accept it like a cloud of smoke blown into your face, and feel what comes.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 7, 2020

The plot might be a bit all over-the-place and hard to follow at times, but if you just sit back and let the movie take control, Inherent Vice turns out to be a fun ride.

| Jun 30, 2020

An allegory to film noir, the conspiracy of cults, hippie culture and conspiracy theories. Topics that don't seem to fit in with Anderson's world. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 26, 2020

It's like watching a film noir while stoned... Nothing makes sense.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | May 27, 2020

The think I liked the most about this movie is that it seemed to perfectly encapsulate Southern California in the 70s.

| Mar 26, 2020

I'm firmly on the side of loving it, but I know it's not for everybody. It's the kind of thing you'll like if you like that kind of thing.

| Jan 9, 2020