Paul Thomas Anderson

What makes a Paul Thomas Anderson film a Paul Thomas Anderson film

Across 10 films, they run much more strangeness, somewhat more nostalgia and somewhat more beauty than films in general. Their films vary about as much as any director’s do, so this is an average rather than a template.

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.