Phantom Thread

With “Phantom Thread,” Paul Thomas Anderson stitches together a daringly quiet love story.

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Despite being, in a sense, the most straightforward, linear narrative movie the writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has made in quite some time (perhaps since “Punch Drunk Love”—and this is not the only respect in which the two films resemble each other), “Phantom Thread” could be the filmmaker's most fascinatingly oblique work.

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You might not recognize the love driving “Phantom Thread” forward as love, per se, but you will understand that love is expressed in so many ways, in so many forms, whether through meticulous construction or through the preparation of dinner. Love is patient, love is kind; love is haunting, and occasionally crazy.

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Daniel Day-Lewis retires in style with a thrillingly kinky fashion romance.

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The film arrives at a place of qualified peace that cauterizes the emotional wounds of Paul Thomas Anderson’s cinema.

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The disruptive love between a British designer and his young muse is explored with sophistication and humor in PTA’s latest masterpiece.

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P.T. Anderson reunites with Daniel Day-Lewis for the exquisite mad love of Phantom Thread.

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His thoughts look more dramatic than other actors’ deeds, and his deeds are done with a deliberated grace. If it is true, as Day-Lewis has declared, that Phantom Thread will be his final movie, we will miss him when he retires from the game that he has crowned. He is the Federer of film.

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In Paul Thomas Anderson’s study in romantic obsession, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as a reigning high-fashion designer in postwar London.

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It’s tempting to view Phantom Thread in the context of Anderson’s own self-mythology, but it’s also never felt more wrong. Shapeshifting films aren’t new for him, but this feels like the beginning of a different version of the filmmaker: one who’s more mature, more confident, more open, and a director who will continue to keep surprising all of us.

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Daniel Day-Lewis' final film The Phantom Thread is gorgeous, unpredictable, and maybe a little indulgent.

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The filmmaker's latest – Daniel Day-Lewis' last movie – channels romance, fashion and relationship power struggles into one doozy of a love story.

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Daniel Day-Lewis is impeccable in the too-tame Phantom Thread.

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In the grand tapestry of Daniel Day-Lewis’ acting career, Phantom Thread will be sewn in as a colorful swatch, though for a retirement role, he leaves us wanting a little more.

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In Paul Thomas Anderson's coldly seductive fable of toxic masculinity, Daniel Day-Lewis goes out with high showmanship (but not, perhaps, a home run) as a '50s British fashion designer who tries to control love.

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Daniel Day-Lewis’ ‘Phantom Thread’ is perfect for holiday curmudgeons.

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Phantom Thread Works Hard at Being a Masterpiece. But Is It?

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