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  Review by BRÁT ★★★★ 28

  lancaster dodd is just tyler durden for people who know how to read

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  Review by PTAbro ★★★★★ 33

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Freddie is a bad dog. He keeps running away from home. He stumbles on a new master who loves him very much and tries to teach him to behave. Freddie loves his new master very much too, and tries to learn new tricks for him. Unfortunately, the call of the wild proves too much for Freddie and he runs away again. After a time, he returns to the master he loves so much only to find that his master has made the very difficult realization that Freddie will never be happy on a leash. And so Freddie's master has to let Freddie go. Freddie is sad to leave, but realizes that he can survive in the wild. Freddie is loose, Freddie is happy, Freddie is his own master now.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★½ 33

  “If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you’d be the first person in the history of the world.”

  I’ve thought about this quote constantly for 8 years now. Saw this movie in 70mm at an Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, during college at my most “young adult trying to understand film as much as everybody around him.” I walked away with nothing more than “pretty movie! great acting. guess it’s about Scientology, which rocks, because i know that is bad” but something about it stuck with me. PTA’s movies have an effect on me where I walk away thinking about them intensely but not fully…

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  Review by Eric Hatch ★★★★★ 5

  Joaquin Phoenix fucks a sand-hole and gets kicked out of Sears.

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  Review by alyssa ★★★★★ 6

  fellas is it gay for a man to be your other half? like is it gay to be codependent with a man who possesses the qualities you desire while you possess the qualities he desires yet neither of you dare to speak it out loud for fear of admitting weakness? fellas is it gay to channel all of your inner repression and anger into violence against anyone who dares to question the only man who believes in you? is it gay to tell him you are the only one in this world who loves him while both of you are in jail together? is it gay to sail across the atlantic ocean to bring him a pack of kools?

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  Review by Ayo Edebiri

  PigFUCK ❤️

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★ 7

  Another movie about how being horny drives you insane, thankfully this condition can be cured through processing (jacking off).

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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★★½ 7

  Oh jeez, that was something.

  Uhhh, I don't know, nothing I say can really properly describe how beautiful I thought this film was. Beautiful in it's writing, performances, and obviously cinematography. I am seriously amazed a story like this was told so well and in such a fascinating way. Going to be thinking about this one for awhile.

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★★ 92

  Wow.

  It doesn't happen often that all elements of what comprises film reach such a high level as with The Master. It brushes with perfection on so many an occasion which left me in complete awe for everyone involved in making this, but mainly because of the three main offenders; Phoenix, Hoffman and Anderson.

  Paul Thomas Anderson is unmistakably a unique, powerful and resounding voice in cinema. Whenever he creates, something happens among lovers of film. Whenever he speaks through this wonderful medium I just have to listen. And while not all of his tales are equally impressive, they are always unique in style, content and themes. I find it amazing that a director who has received so much acclaim…

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  Review by amaya ★★★★ 6

  first watch: what the fuck

  second watch: it's about family. it's about a lost soul who needs something to cling onto in order not to sink after a traumatizing war he doesn't understand. it's about belonging and how men easily blind themselves if it means they can find purpose and comfort. it's about love and intimacy. it's about being free or rather how you can't truly be. it's about men, animals, convincing themselves they're not.

  third watch: they are gay

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  Review by brendan o'hare ★★★★★ 1

  Five years ago I tweeted the following: "I think the movie scene I relate to most is in The Master when Joaquin Phoenix hurls a meatball at a guy trying to make a valid point"

  This has not changed

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★ 6

  "If you leave me now, in the next life you will be my sworn enemy. And I will show you no mercy."
  
  I really miss Phillip Seymour Hoffman.