Punch-Drunk Love is a really important pivot film in PTA’s filmography, it moves away from his heavily Altman/Scorsese inspired films into the more singular films he makes today. Where Magnolia feels possibly over-burdened by genius, PDL comes across very unburdened by those pursuits while (arguably) coming to a more coherent conclusion on how people deal with loneliness. 

I rate it towards to the bottom of my PTA list but more coincidentally than for any specific reason, I still think it’s a great movie. PTA is really underrated as a humorist and PDL has some of his funniest writing and some of the best comedic performances in one of his movies, particularly from Luis Guzman and PSH