NEW YORK -- The world premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice will screen as the Centerpiece of the upcoming 52nd New York Film Festival. Starring Oscar nominees Joaquin Phoenix and Josh ...

If you're more of a movie person than a literature person, you might only be familiar with Thomas Pynchon thanks to Inherent Vice, which is, to date, the only novel of his that’s been adapted into ...

There are those who will observe—and have observed already—that Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice is weird, rambling, fragmented, occasionally over the top and not at ...

Paul Thomas Anderson was making serious movies long before he began making “serious” movies, ponderous works of certified art like There Will Be Blood and The Master. His earliest pictures, like Hard ...

It’s a bit of a mess, but a highly entertaining one. “Inherent Vice,” true to director-screenwriter Paul Thomas Anderson’s track record in movies like “Magnolia,” “The Master” and “There Will Be Blood ...

In the shipping industry, the term inherent vice refers to forms of risk that cannot be avoided: glasses breaking, rice spilling, and so on. Unsurprisingly, this definition functions as a broader ...

These tales, they usually start with a woman, a woman in trouble. Larry “Doc” Sportello (Phoenix) thought he’d seen the last of Shasta Fey Hepworth (Waterston), but here she is, sneaking in the back ...