A simple thing, a robe, and yet it captures so much of what it feels like to have passed so close to disaster...

| Mar 27, 2023

Anderson has trouble coaxing this struggle to any sort of emotional climax; its fanciful, symbolic ending is the sort critics will praise for its careful ambiguity even as they overlook its narrative desperation.

| Mar 10, 2020

Anderson makes movies that may refuse to explain themselves but nevertheless manage to engage the viewer, in part because he tends to cut from confined spaces to open ones as if inviting us to enter them.

| Mar 7, 2019

As visual music grounded in a feeling of preposterous luxury, this is as enveloping and experimental as anything Anderson has done.

| Sep 14, 2018

Artistically, Phantom Thread might be the best film of the year. Nevertheless...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 27, 2018

Krieps... gives the impression of a woman who may well be able to stand still longer than anyone else, but who, on the inside, is trembling almost imperceptibly with energy, appetite, and rage.

| Mar 2, 2018

Daniel Day-Lewis has turned in a measured, masterful performance of a flawed man who could be tender and kind, petulant and dismissive, and deeply hurtful. What a swan song.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2018

I've seen Phantom Thread three times now, and each time I have been gripped ever tighter in its sublimely eerie and immaculately constructed web.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 4, 2018

Possibly Paul Thomas Anderson's best film since that American auteur's staggeringly assured early work.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 2, 2018

... I challenge you not to be grimly compelled by every minute of Phantom Thread.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2018

It is a wonderfully fixating film in every respect, and wholly non-formulaic.

| Feb 1, 2018

If Phantom Thread has a problem, it is that it's so full of fraught confrontations, even those that are outwardly genteel, that it sometimes feels more like a compilation of outstanding scenes than a great movie.

| Feb 1, 2018

Phantom Thread's apparent severity is a brilliant disguise that only really unravels in retrospect: what's underneath is a battle-of-the-sexes comedy that ruthlessly strips away layers of archetype and artifice.

| Feb 1, 2018

The pleasure here lies in the unpredictability of Paul Thomas Anderson's approach, his ability and that of his actors to surprise us with every new stitch of the movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2018

Take your seat; settle comfortably; prepare to be taken to hell and back, by a master tour guide using the scenic route.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 31, 2018

Despite swoonsome visuals, it's a constricting, prickly and demanding film, the portrait of a very odd love affair shot through a very male lens...Think Fifty Shades Of Grey for the couture crowd.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2018

Paul Thomas Anderson 's sly oddness is all his own. Heck, the thing is nearly a comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2018

Paul Thomas Anderson does gothic romance in prestige Brit picture style, eliciting a worthy final performance from Daniel Day-Lewis that's admirably matched by newcomer Vicky Krieps.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2018

A stunning film with enchanting performances from Day Lewis and Manville. Perfectly made, with an assured hand, this is a truly remarkable film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 26, 2018

I was mostly riveted by this movie because of the incredible work from both Daniel Day-Lewis, and the actress who portrays Alma (Vicky Krieps).

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 26, 2018