In Inherent Vice, you fasten onto Doc, knowing that his slovenly sincerity and dazed, slow-motion reactions make him as close to a moral centre as the movie is going to have.
It is Taylor Swift channelling Funny Face, and Joaquin Phoenix in Inherent Vice.
The shot of the year comes early for UK audiences in 2015 – a tableau in Inherent Vice.
And you know that we've got her mom [the late Minnie Riperton] singing in Inherent Vice, too?
We only ask because Joaquin Phoenix is wearing the former in Inherent Vice, and what Phoenix does, fashion follows (see Her and To Die For).
Even groundbreaking ideas have life spans, and Stella's belief in inherent values of abstract art has long since ceased to be shared by younger artists.
Fines' best actor nod fell in the comedy movie category, which he shared with Michael Keaton in Birdman, Bill Murray in St. Vincent, Joaquin Phoenix in Inherent Vice and Christoph Waltz in Big Eyes.
Among other things the characters in Inherent Vice are seeking is a ship once called the Preserved, which represents a dream of escape and safety or safekeeping; preservation resists inherent vice.
Before starring opposite Joaquin Phoenix in Inherent Vice, Witherspoon wowed audiences and critics with her portrayal of June Carter to his Johnny Cash in James Mangold's practically flawless biographical drama.
Fiennes' best actor nod fell in the comedy movie category, which he shared with Keaton in Birdman, Bill Murray in St Vincent, Joaquin Phoenix in Inherent Vice and Christoph Waltz in Big Eyes.
The tragedy that Bigelow depicts is that of military actions that are in inherent contradiction with their aims, and of soldiers who are thereby condemned to attempt the impossible.
