See this film: The Master @ the Brattle

Not so long ago Paul Thomas Anderson's brilliant, bizarre, and beautiful parable about a whacked-out WWII vet (Joachim Phoenix) and the charismatic founder of a Scientology-like cult (Philip Seymour Hoffman) was seen as an Oscar shoo-in. It's since been eclipsed by other wannabes, but don't be surprised when in a decade or two it makes it into Sight & Sound's Ten Best List. Catch it at the Brattle Theatre, where it screens Friday, January 11 through Thursday, January 17.

Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge :: $9.75; $7.75 students :: 617.876.6837 or brattlefilm.org