RottenTomatoes Score: 70% (7 out of 10) Box Office: Produced on a surprisingly high $20 million budget (presumably mostly going to the insane cast), Inherent Vice has to date made $7.5 million and continues director Paul Thomas Anderson's tradition of making adult, acclaimed movies that make nobody any money. Paul Thomas Anderson fans will no doubt delight at the writer-director's elliptical approach to narrative in adapting Thomas Pynchon's novel... and everyone else will have no idea what the hell they just watched. Boasting one of the most impressively stacked casts in years, Inherent Vice is a compelling and frequently hilarious crime caper that, while having little solid plot at all to speak of, still somehow actually feels fully-formed and "about" something. Perhaps it's because of how well Anderson captures the 1970s, or perhaps it's because of Josh Brolin's constant eating of chocolate-covered bananas, but for the discerning viewer, this is a wildly entertaining and delightfully demented ride.
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