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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 15 Mar 2015

The title for this film should have been Incoherent Vice, such is the unfunny, meandering, deliberately confusing plot scribble of Paul Thomas…

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By Jake Wilson (570) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 13 Mar 2015

It isn't one film but many, an anthology of expertly recreated genre tropes, from fog-shrouded noir to sunlit paranoia…

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By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 13 Mar 2015

Crazy enough to entertain while illuminating the sad reality of never quite getting what you want…

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By Simon Miraudo (882) for Student Edge (256) on 12 Mar 2015

Movies don't need to be better than the book. They only need to be the best movie version of the book. And Inherent Vice is that…

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By Cameron Williams (256) for The Popcorn Junkie (236) on 09 Mar 2015

Tune in, drop out, and let this superb hippy noir wash over you…

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By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 07 Mar 2015

There is nothing straightforward about anyone in Paul Thomas Anderson's bewitching mystery in which each character is a stepping-stone in a…

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By Blake Howard (505) for 2UE That Movie Show (314) on 27 Feb 2015

PTA, Pynchon, Phoenix and co. produce something unavoidably brilliant…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 25 Feb 2015

The film's convoluted plot and lack of genuine feeling for the characters undercut even its most impressive sequences, making it feel empty…

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By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 25 Feb 2015

On a strictly impressionistic first watch I intensely hated it…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Movie Habit (892) on 13 Feb 2015

P.T. Anderson brings Pynchon's clouds of digressions to the screen…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 02 Feb 2015

Tonally askew (Altman-esque one minute, Austin Powers-esque the next), Inherent Vice is a sun-glared, neon-limned muddle of noir plotline and…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 01 Feb 2015

I found myself going with it for about two thirds of the time, seduced by its sweetness, suspicious of its sexuality…

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By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 30 Jan 2015

The thing Inherent Vice has going is its sense of always plucking at the fringe, the conviction that the central characters aren't necessarily…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 30 Jan 2015

For those of us who cleave to the old-fashioned view that narratives should be vaguely penetrable, the film might as well be retitled Incoherent Vice…

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By John Nugent (191) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 30 Jan 2015

A noble failure, perhaps, but whatever you make of its unwieldy plot machinations, Inherent Vice's smoky Californian atmosphere is guaranteed…

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By Andrew Collins (119) for Radio Times (2,421) on 29 Jan 2015

Inherent Vice does gets over-entangled, but, despite the pot haze, a credible plot emerges and Anderson chalks up another triumph…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 29 Jan 2015

Watching Paul Thomas Anderson's wonderfully textured and intricate LA-set Inherent Vice, you are easily reminded of the famous story about…

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By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 29 Jan 2015

Not knowing quite where the joke is doesn't stop us from finding it funny, any more than confusion should preclude our wistful appreciation…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 29 Jan 2015

As rich and strange as we've come to expect from the late Anderson films, but doesn't quite achieve the digressive whackadoo majesty of the novel…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 29 Jan 2015

A delirious triumph: a stylish-squared meeting of creative minds, a swirl of hypnosis and symbiosis, with Pynchon's prose partly assigned to…

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