Academy Award Winner Reese Witherspoon is back on the big screen with the movie "Inherent Vice", which also stars Owen Wilson and Joaquin Phoenix. The movie, released last January 9, has been receiving rave reviews, reported Hollywood Life.

The movie was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and was based on Thomas Pynchon's novel of the same title.

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Set in the 1970s, the movie is about Doc Sportello, a private eye in California who investigates a missing person related to a former girlfriend while driven in a cannabis haze.

Sportello, whose character is played by Joaquin Phoenix, encounters a network of intertwining conspiracies while doing the investigation. Witherspoon portrays Penny Kimball, another supporting character in the movie.

"Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson's trippy trenchant satire, is very much a creature of Thomas Pynchon's biting deconstruction of the final daze of peace, love and understanding that gives the films its inspiration and name. Joaquin Phoenix and the terrific acting ensemble that joins him in this pot infused 70's era beach noir create such a good buzz you can almost get a contact high from watching," wrote the Los Angeles Times.

ScreenRant, on the other hand, described the movie as "a hilariously subversive deconstruction of a 60's era culture and counter-culture."

Chicago Tribune referred to the movie as an "exasperating shaggy dog of a noir goof."

Other movie review sites such as Rotten Tomatoes gave it a score of 68 percent, while Metacritic gave it a high score of 81 percent.

"Inherent Vice" will be officially released abroad in February and March.

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