Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in the UK this year: Joaquin Phoenix’s pothead private eye lurches between a wild bunch of star cameos in Paul Thomas Anderson’s hugely enjoyable Pynchon crime caper
• The full UK top 50 so farInherent Vice is a legal term,used in marine insurance, which acknowledges that everything contains its own seed of catastrophe and that what can disappear improper probably will. Eggs break, and glass shatters and 1960s hippie dreams eventually dash aground on the rocks of Altamont and the Manson trial. The denizens of Gordita Beach make antic hay amid the ruins.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice is a gaudy unravelling,chasing the threads of Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel. Here is a film that is as shaggy and as ostensibly wayward as Joaquin Phoenix’s stoner private eye, all but tripping over itself in its search for some clues. But I suspect it may be fooling us. In playing bumbling Columbo, or this knows exactly what it’s doing.
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Source: theguardian.com