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The Master
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer85%as of 2025-02-04
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.1/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic86/100as of 2026-02-03
What it is
The Master is a 2012 American period psychological drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. It tells the story of Freddie Quell (Phoenix), a World War II Navy veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society, who meets Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), the leader of a cult known as The Cause.
At a glance
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- English
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