Anderson directed the likes of “Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia,” and “There Will Be Blood,” all superior to his latest, which nonetheless is an enjoyable ride. Make no mistake: This is a political film ...

Eleven years after Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson once again adapts Thomas Pynchon with One Battle After Another, a very loose reworking of the author’s Vineland that boasts many of the same ...

As Perfidia Beverly Hills in Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic “One Battle After Another” Teyana Taylor easily boasts the year’s coolest character name. And what a forged-in-steel character! As “Battle” ...

There are a lot of reasons not to read James Ellroy's newest novel, Perfidia — the opening shot in his proposed second L.A. Quartet. It's a long and sprawling book with about a million pages and ...

The time frame allows Ellroy to bring back literally dozens of characters, major and minor, from the earlier novels. Many of them, we already know, will come to bad ends as their fictional futures ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter There surely can’t be a more richly or brutally realised city in world literature than James Ellroy’s Los Angeles. With his original ...