More From the Los Angeles Times
-
-
Oct. 10, 2024
-
-
Most Read in Awards
-
Oct. 18, 2024
-
-
-
By Glenn Whipp
We know Philip Seymour Hoffman’s charismatic showman Lancaster Dodd is many things: a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher, for starters. But, as Dodd reminds us in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master,” he is “above all, a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man.”