Paul Thomas Anderson’s golden-age porn-biz epic isn’t really about porn, or even sex. It’s about family. None of PTA’s flash one-ers or dead-on needle drops would matter if it weren’t for the keen insight of his script or the performances of his killer cast: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Burt Reynolds, Heather Graham, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and at least a dozen more. -Lee Gardner
1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 2.35:1 Color DCP 155 min.
