Subject: Paul Thomas Anderson

• Old News

  Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded a good harvest

  January 2, 2003

• Independent Heaven

  February 8, 1996

• Comeback Penn-ding

  September 11, 1997

• Porn Yesterday

  October 16, 1997

• Happy Gilmore Gets Serious

  Adam Sandler is deliberately disturbing in Punch-Drunk Love

  October 17, 2002

• Jonny Greenwood: There Will Be Blood: Original Music by Jonny Greenwood

  February 21, 2008

• Adrift in Manhattan

  The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston screens the newest by Alfredo De Villa, the next great American drama master

  February 14, 2008

• There Will Be Blood

  An epic gusher strikes oil, and then some

  January 10, 2008

• The Year In Film

  Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

  December 27, 2007

• Here, Baby, Here

  Playing down-on-her-luck, Amy Ryan's star rises.

  November 1, 2007

• The Popcorn King

  Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

  August 9, 2007

• The Winter of Our Discontent

  Rose Troche uses the Altman method to reveal more suburban discomfort

  March 13, 2003

• Reign Over Me

  Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower and finally nails a somber role

  March 22, 2007

• Pause and Effect

  A truly universal remote leads to Sandler's best movie in years

  June 22, 2006

• Humor Can Be Funny

  Or so believe the Comedians of Comedy

  April 14, 2005

• Holmes Fried

  Wonderland leaves you wondering about its characters

  October 16, 2003

• Fight Club

  Sandler and Nicholson yell at each other, and it's unpleasant

  April 10, 2003

• Schmidt Happens

  Nicholson disappears into a wondrous movie about quiet desperation

  December 19, 2002

• Short Cuts

  Director borrows from the Robert Altman stylebook to create his Magnolia "masterpiece"

  January 6, 2000

• Disney Lightens Up

  Fantasia/2000 strikes a better balance between serious and comic elements

  December 30, 1999

• Set to Explode

  July 23, 2009