Saturday, September 15, 2012
'The Master' is elusive and enthralling, critics say
A great deal of the buzz surrounding "The Master," Paul Thomas Anderson's new drama starring Joaquin Phoenix as a troubled World War II veteran and Philip Seymour Hoffman as the charismatic leader of a new spiritual movement, has focused on the film's apparent parallels to Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. According to critics, however, "The Master" isn't a muckraking expose about a controversial religion — rather, it's a captivating and at times confounding film about two disturbed souls and the dark corners of human nature.
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