The electricity between actors Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman is off the charts in this complex study of power, loyalty and contradictions. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 28, 2025

An intense, thoughtful and harsh film that shows the contradictions between people with a certain degree of power and those who have no power at all. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 17, 2024

In lesser hands, The Master might proceed as a satire of Scientology, the predatory charlatanism inherent to cults or organized religion and spiritual movements writ large. But Anderson...keeps the film rooted in incisive, character-driven storytelling.

| Jul 16, 2024

The 2012 character drama, dealing with a world recovering from World War II, is a poetic epic.

| Apr 20, 2023

Tremendously enigmatic. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 5, 2023

There are moments where the visual textures and unbelievable performances leave us to percolate in Anderson’s world, and for that instant, we forget all else as sweeping camera movements pull us along, and Greenwood’s score sends goosebumps down our arms.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 23, 2022

Just as there were moments where I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen, there were also times when the story seemed to bog down in the deliberate pacing and slight self-indulgence

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Hoffman conveys an emptiness that can only come from his character's awareness that he has made up that which he preaches.

| Nov 28, 2021

PT Anderson seems less concerned with his characters being understood. They have always been arrogant, self-assured pricks. It's all about them pitted against one another for a dogmatic battle. There Will be Blood could have easily been called The Master.

| Feb 28, 2021

Offers two fascinating performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman ... but that's about it.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 2, 2020

Far more interested in the cult of personality than it is in exploring any particular religious or spiritual path.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 16, 2020

Anderson has sensitive antennae, but they are attuned at the moment to confused social layers and his haphazard approach does little to clear up the confusion.

| Aug 13, 2020

Is a provocative masterpiece that has amplified my faith for the cinema of the master Paul Thomas Anderson. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 25, 2020

A peerless performance by everyone, in front of and behind the camera, render it an extraordinary addition to Paul Thomas Anderson's oeuvre and an example of a director at the peak of his powers.

| Feb 13, 2020

The seemingly dissonant performances of the leads yield an unexpected harmony, particularly in a scene in which the two men find themselves in adjoining jail cells, acting according to their opposite instincts.

| Dec 23, 2019

I would need a rewatch to really settle in on how I feel about The Master, but my initial reaction is that it's good. It's just not the masterpiece that his last film was.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 2, 2019

A bold, towering work that is as infuriating as it is masterful.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 8, 2019

At once an unauthorised, fictional version of the life of L. Ron Hubbard, and also the story of two men locked in a love they'll never fully express.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 3, 2019

Fueled by a transcendent performance from Joaquin Phoenix, this is a film that from a technical standpoint is as close to perfect as any I can remember in recent memory.

| Original Score: A | Apr 11, 2019

The main thing is that The Master is so unlike anything else in its seriousness and so admirable in its vitality that one has to support it.

| Feb 25, 2019