Re-Review: ‘The Master’ and That Slow Boat to China

On P.T. Anderson’s masterpiece, California, and the film’s enigmatic ending

There are many great movie directors alive today — Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, etc. — but I’d contend that Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the only ones whose best work is most likely still in front of him. Anderson has made eight feature films during his 23…