Paul Thomas Anderson has made eight films, and none of them are bad. Such a track record immediately puts Anderson in rarefied air. How many other directors can boast eight in a row with no misses? Kurosawa? Hitchcock? Scorsese? Anderson belongs to this company and thensome, his work bursting at the seams with emotion, invention, and a palpable love of the game. Anderson's pure enthusiasm for cinema at times results in films and flourishes that wear their influences on their sleeves -- the aforementioned Scorsese, Kubrick, Altman -- but it's clear Anderson is no pastiche player. While running through his …