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Paul Thomas Anderson’s Psychological Prowess through the Lens of his Most Problematic Picture
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s Psychological Prowess through the Lens of his Most Problematic Picture

Hector Levya May 15, 2025

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I Speak in Three Languages, Write in Two, Love in One: ‘Lootera’ and Romance in Vernacular 

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