It’s hardly a piping hot take to say that Paul Thomas Anderson has not made a bad film.
From his breakout second feature Boogie Nights to his misunderstood romantic comedy Phantom Thread, via the Oscar-winning There Will Be Blood and the Silver Lion-nabbing The Master, the American filmmaker has consistently proven that he’s in a league of his own. And whether you pick Punch-Drunk Love or Licorice Pizza as your least favourite entry in his filmography, his ‘weakest’ would still top other directors’ screen credits.
