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What is the best Paul Thomas Anderson movie of all time?

By YPB Team

Sprawling ensemble epics, obsessive character studies, and one of cinema's most intense relationships with Daniel Day-Lewis — his filmography is pure cinema. Which one tops them all?

  1. There Will Be Blood — ranked #11
    There Will Be Blood
    Daniel Day-Lewis is a monstrous oil prospector in early 20th century California, delivering one of the greatest screen performances ever.
  2. Boogie Nights — ranked #22
    Boogie Nights
    A sprawling ensemble portrait of the porn industry in the 1970s and 80s, full of humanity and excess.
  3. Magnolia — ranked #33
    Magnolia
    An interwoven mosaic of Los Angeles lives on the verge of emotional breakdown, climaxing in one of cinema's most audacious moments.
  4. The Master — ranked #44
    The Master
    Joaquin Phoenix plays a drifting WWII veteran drawn into a cult-like spiritual movement in postwar America.
  5. Punch-Drunk Love — ranked #55
    Punch-Drunk Love
    Adam Sandler's finest hour — a strange, tender romance about a lonely small businessman overwhelmed by love.
  6. Phantom Thread — ranked #66
    Phantom Thread
    Daniel Day-Lewis's final role: a fastidious London couturier whose obsessive world is disrupted by an unexpected muse.
  7. Licorice Pizza — ranked #77
    Licorice Pizza
    A nostalgic coming-of-age story set in San Fernando Valley in the 1970s about two misfits falling in and out of love.
  8. Hard Eight — ranked #88
    Hard Eight
    A mysterious older gambler takes a down-on-his-luck drifter under his wing in Reno — PTA's quiet, confident debut.

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