The best reviews about Magnolia were in the Guardian - Philip Bradshaw liked it and said it was about regret, and Philip French didn't like it and said it was no deeper that a sitcom. I said that I agreed with French, and that Daddy Nostalgie was on a different level for dealing with regret - a much higher level, but of course as it's not a yank film it doesn't get close to the IMDb top 250 rating for Magnolia.

There, the summary without any of the nice language I made up.