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Positive Reviews
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3.0
But the mannered elegance of the filmmaking masks a perverse and finally rather moving relationship study.
Av Club
4.5
While Day Lewis is excellent, he doesnt quite let us under Reynolds skin; hes a collection of tics and eccentricities more than a fully rounded charac ..
Den Of Geek
4.5
Even if youre utterly engrossed, the ending is the final stitch that pulls everything together.
Den Of Geek
2.5
There are also nice bits of humor sprinkled throughout the film, much more than one might expect initially.
Den Of Geek
3.0
Here we go!.It takes a bit too long for Anderson to get there, but for the most part, the wait ends up being worth it.
EW
5.0
(Irresistible force and immovable object constantly moving to different places on a chess board.).In a sense, it feels anecdotal.
Rogerebert
4.0
Director Paul Thomas Anderson takes a break from films that are trying to say something to return to a story about people; this is one of his best, mo ..
Common Sense Media
4.5
Whenever Reynolds attempts to dismiss Almas intelligence, shes quick to fire back.
Indie Wire
3.0
The movie is at once a Hitchcockian thriller and a touching portrait of what it means to live alongside artistic passion, and commune with it, rather ..
Indie Wire
5.0
I wish it had stayed on that track, but Anderson isnt content to make a black hearted retro genre film.
Variety
5.0
Its sexy, silly and undeniably wonderfullike the best of affairs.
Time Out
5.0
A swooning score, crisp visuals and paper cut sharp performances combine to conjure a poisoned rose of a movie, inviting you to prick your finger on i ..
The Guardian
5.0
There is such pure delicious pleasure in this film, in its strangeness, its vehemence, its flourishes of absurdity, carried off with superb elegance.
The Guardian
5.0
Such a life serves more than work, as artists are often control freaks riven with anxiety and social awkwardness that must be put to rest by the calmi ..
4.4
If Phantom Thread isnt exactly a narrative triumph, it still manages to deliver, especially as a haunting evocation of avidity, appetite and aesthetic ..
5.0
An impossible love affair rendered in impeccable detail, Phantom Thread beguiles as it confounds while articulating a universal truth: Nobody can poss ..
Screen Daily
3.0
And yet, like a meticulously crafted dress, it may not move or breathe, but we still marvel at its exquisite craft and stunning design.
Collider
4.5
The interplay between the themesgender and creativitymake for a film thats constantly interesting if not always emotionally moving (although the film ..
Collider
5.0
0 Whenever I put together a top ten list for a year in film, I attempt to find a common thread between the films.
Collider
5.0
It would all be very pretentious except its not pretension if you live and breathe it, as I think Anderson lives and breathes the idea that an artist ..
Vulture
5.0
Its a safe bet that no film has ever featured so much sewing and clothes making before, or takes it this seriously.
The Hollywood Reporter
4.5
It looked an awful lot like, well, a womens picture.Turns out Phantom Thread is plenty muscular, even with all those pretty, swishy skirts.
2.0
But underneath, messy, angry real life keeps bubbling up, fervent and eager to escape.
Paste Magazine
4.4
Its hard to say where exactly Phantom Thread is going, at least while its going there.Pieces of Andersons story seems familiar the elder artist inspir ..
IGN
5.0
The psychology is tangled and doesnt always track smoothly, but aesthetically its usually surprising and entertaining.
E Film Critic
5.0
At once a throwback to a classical style of big screen storytelling and at the same time completely unclassifiable, this is the first film in recent m ..
E Film Critic
4.0
Nestled within his Fitzrovia manor, Reynolds Woodcock holds court with nobles and heiresses as a reigning luminary of fashion.His every movement and g ..
The Young Folks
4.0
Without giving too much away, the narrative ultimately becomes a slow transition of emotional power.
4.0
Because keeping things further off balance is Vicky Krieps as that new inspiration.Is she really as innocent as she looks
Ny Daily News
4.0
At the same time, those who are fans of Andersons most recent work and/or are fascinated by the films subject matter will want to give this one a look ..
Screen Rant
3.1
Andersons latest drama or, more accurately, the directors latest emotional puzzle, as the filmmaker further inches away from the narrative straitjacke ..
The Globe And Mail
3.8
Night Comes On director talks about shooting in Philly, and falling in love with the city.Night Comes On director talks about shooting in Philly, and ..
Philly
4.0
The journey until the final unveiling would not be half as engaging if it werent for the brutally raw and sincere performances by the actors.
2.0
Anderson, doing his own camerawork, captures the languorous feel with precision, and Dylan Tichenors editing emphasizes it in terms of pacing.Nothing ..
One Guys Opinion
4.5
Anderson confines much of the action to the modest interiors of Reynoldss world.
Village Voice
3.8
But whatever this cryptic, slow and dramatically thin character study lacks, Lewis lovingly paints over with one last meticulously detailed, compact a ..
Rogers Movie Nation
4.2
The hypnotic score by Jonny Greenwood keeps the mood of how perversely funny it all is despite its serious tone.
Sover
3.8
For Daniel Day Lewis final acting job, he gives it his all, playing fashion designed Reynolds Woodcock as a tightly wound ball of impulses, quirks, an ..
ReelViews
3.0
Set in the glamour of 1950s post war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion, dressing ..
Blu Ray
4.4
In the end, the entirety of the film is summed up with an exchange thats akin to the long awaited, highly anticipated, and pretty hilarious punch line ..
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
Upstairs, Woodcock inspects a beautifully detailed and tailored gown.
3.8
While the film is a solid outing, for sure Day Lewis never gives even a mediocre performance in many ways, Phantom Thread has him sharing the spotligh ..
Usa Today
3.8
Anderson has infused each of the movies central figures with a palpable sense of authenticity, and its consequently not difficult to envision entire m ..
Reel Film Reviews
4.0
During a lifetime of film watching, and 24 years of professional film criticism, Ive never once encountered one that I have loved and loathed with the ..
The Times
3.0
The acting is wonderful, but I just wish the emotions on display in this film were more accessible, and not so alien.
Lariat
5.0
Tweet Phantom Thread Daniel Barnes By This article was published on 01.25.18 Advertisement Fractured masculinity and daddy obsessions have served as t ..
News Review
5.0
If this is to be his swan song, what a fine and fitting departure.
Radio Times
5.0
Its simply entertaining and often awe inspiring to watch masters at work.
Screen It
4.0
The setting is London in the early 1950s.The filmmakers have gone to extraordinary lengths to recreate the period accurately but seem somehow to have ..
Independent
4.4
Since Anderson, 47, is the best, most provocative and eternally questing filmmaker of his generation, you can ride the surface of his richly imagined ..
Rolling Stone
4.5
Given time and reflection, however, this fragile beauty will prove itself powerful and enduring.
Pop Matters
5.0
Dancing across the surface of the movie is Anderson regular Jonny Greenwoods enchanting music score, too, which boasts one of the more sublime and tra ..
The Wrap
3.8
Day Lewis is sublime as Woodcock, a dandyish artiste whose utter lack of humor frequently makes him a figure of fun.
News Day
2.0
Aside from the terrific ensemble acting and the pleasures of watching an expertly designed human board game being played out, I think Anderson is also ..
Cs Monitor
3.1
Its all very gorgeous but leaves you feeling rather curdled inside so, perhaps, its the ideal film for holiday curmudgeons.
New York Post
4.0
The overwrought climactic sequences are more confounding than captivating.
Hindustan Times
4.5
But it shouldnt have taken that long to figure it out.The central characters name shouldve given it away.
Hindustan Times
4.5
The movie takes a kind of gothic turn by degrees it sneaks up on you and before you know it, its arrived.And its immensely satisfying.
Az Central
5.0
And therein lies the particular wonder of writer director Paul Thomas Andersons beguiling new film about a British dressmaker in the 1950s: Its a rare ..
Npr
3.8
Phantom Thread is lavish, vibrant and about nothing and everything all at once.It might seem all too precious for words were it not for the ever chang ..
Star Tribune
4.5
A conundrum of a film that defies genre as it twirls us around a wickedly fascinating triad of gently, quietly manipulative people. A cinematic experi ..
3.8
This could make the film seem more of a 2018 headlines responder than a 1950s chamber piece, but the timeliness is a happy accident.
Toronto Star
5.0
Its a fine, often moving performance in a flawed, but thoroughly watchable, film.
Daily Mail
5.0
This devilishly funny and luxuriantly sensuous film is so successful as entertainment that its hard to stop and notice the extreme degree of craft tha ..
Slate
4.0
Like its protagonist, the themes of writer director Andersons film are difficult by wilful design.
Flim List
5.0
Upon first viewing, its utterly irresistible, but the dense themes and examinations of inter character relationships means that it is the rare Anderso ..
Film Inquiry
5.0
I love this film. Just as a beautiful gown is created from unique design and exquisite fabric, so too is this bewitching film about secrets, obsession ..
3.0
Strange, shallow, bizarrely superficial Gothic romance, despite charismatic Daniel Day Lewiss immersive performance.
Susang Ranger
3.8
P.T. Andersons movies are never coherent enough to appeal to the mainstream, but this one is so ravishing and meticulous and exquisite that you have n ..
Observer
4.0
All of this comes together making for an unnerving romance with much to say about art and love.Phantom Thread isnt Paul Thomas Andersons greatest acco ..
Flickering Myth
4.0
Days after watching it, I wondered what exactly I had seen is it a perverse love story.Or a darkly, comical portrait of a toxic relationship
Book My Show
4.0
Its many things at once.Sit back and let the film work its unique charm.
Book My Show
5.0
Costumes are very important to the premise of this film and the beautiful gowns used in the film are simply gorgeous to look at.
Book My Show
5.0
Phantom Thread is Andersons eighth feature, and the first to be set almost exclusively in Britain.The era is the mid nineteen fifties, which means tha ..
New Yorker
2.0
Paul Thomas Andersons latest is the hothouse flower Phantom Thread, a dreamy Gothic romance set in the rarefied world of British high fashion in the 1 ..
Boston Herald
3.0
For all Anderson and Day Lewiss accomplishments I found it almost impossible to care about this preening bully and his latest conquest.
Express
5.0
Anderson scoops up a swirl of influences from Powell and Pressburger to Hitchcock and transforms them into a fairy tale of a film in which you are nev ..
Express
3.0
Just as The Master unmasked a serious man character study as a psychological survey of bullshit artists and Inherent Vice played dress up as a noir st ..
The Film Stage
4.4
The movie feels both expansive and confining, depending on the story chapter.
Chicago Tribune
5.0
Andersons script is often laugh out loud funny in its passive aggressive (and very British) invective, the way a vicious put down can be delivered in ..
Boston Globe
5.0
But it never becomes a thriller, at least not in the conventional sense.
Uproxx
4.0
The clipped cruelty of the winter bound characters brings us inexorably to Ingmar Bergman.
The Irish Times
4.0
It is over another breakfast that he discovers another muse, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who waits on his table at a hotel restaurant.She is of indeterminate ..
The Atlantic
5.0
At the same time an oddly rhapsodic portrait of two deeply imperfect people who just might be perfect for one another, Phantom Thread offers a subvers ..
Birth Movies Death
5.0
Aurally, Jonny Greenwoods often brooding, occasionally soaring piano and violin neoclassical score ideally complements the fluctuations in mood.But wh ..
Standard
2.0
There is nothing heartfelt here for any audience member to sew a button on.Apropos to its title there is no thematic thread to hold the film together.
Coles Mithey
4.4
What at first looks to be a straightforward examination of masochistic misogynistic genius run amok subtly proves to be anything but, this explosive e ..
Movie Freak
3.0
If this is indeed the end for Day Lewis, it is a fitting final bow.
Detroit News
4.5
Day Lewis manages more with one dry utterance than all the explosions in a Transformers movie.
4.0
The aspect to treasure about this film is how deceptively simple it seems but packs so much beneath the rather ostentatious period detailed surface.
Firstpost
5.0
The movie itself reuniting the star and director Paul Thomas Anderson is a sumptuous but chilly affair, meticulously stitched together, but intriguing ..
Cnn
3.0
But despite hints that it has other ideas on its plate, its not good enough to justify its oft told tale.
Forbes
4.0
Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread is a definitive return to the same great form that marked his last collaboration with Day ..
Herald Sun
4.5
Here clothes are made with a quiet precision and loud noises arent tolerated.
Tumblr
5.0
A genuinely thrilling piece of filmmaking, which while not being one of his most accessible works to date, is certainly one of Andersons most memorabl ..
Hey U Guys
3.0
This is a movie youll want to live in for the pure joy of reveling in Andersons effortless mastery.
The Play List
5.0
And like The Master, Phantom moves fluidly but feels impossibly precise; it swoons while keeping things prickly; it spins a straightforward narrative ..
Now Toronto
5.0
In this atelier of intense emotions, Anderson has crafted an old fashioned romance about the very foundation of modern romance.
Scroll
5.0
An unpredictable, humor infused courtship drama of sumptuous beauty, Paul Thomas Andersons latest is a handsome love story, draped with surprising del ..
Film School Rejects
5.0
...a sumptuous, elegant, exquisite creation of the finest quality, stitched together by a master of the craft.
Film Ink
4.5
Its pace is slower and its step is gentler, and Anderson himself taking over cinematography duties from longtime collaborator Robert Elswit renders a ..
Ner Dist
4.5
Theres nobody left in Hollywood making broad, sweeping, lively political melodramas like Spike Lee.
The Age
5.0
New Year celebrations have only recently been and gone, but it may well prove difficult to find a more perfect film than Paul Thomas Andersons Phantom ..
Cine Vue
5.0
Its a shocking and intense tale of obsession, with alarming moments of humour.
Mirror
2.0
Yet any #TimesUp relevance feels coincidental to Andersons haute couture aesthetic; this movie is too pretty to be angry.Andersons craft is likewise s ..
Tamp A Bay
4.0
But there is more than enough worthwhile material here to allow Day Lewis to bow out in style.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
5.0
This is Andersons most sedate and humane movie it chills you in the moment and then destroys you over the long haul.
Lw Lies
5.0
Once again the leap pays off, just.Maybe its because Phantom Thread comes close to landing flat on its face that it ends up such a breathtaking experi ..
Abc
5.0
This is great acting, great direction, great cinematography, from a great script.It is peak motion picture artistry.
Abc
5.0
But its also funny.And its perspective, and therefore its power, is constantly shifting between the lovers.
The Stranger
3.0
Day Lewis manages to convey so much with the slightest eye movement or cold smile.
Cleve Land
5.0
Indeed, the oppressive style and sublimated Hitchcockian tensions might not be for everyone either, but I loved this film, omelette and all, and suspe ..
Independent Ie
5.0
The director of superlative period piece fare such as There Will Be Blood and The Master has made another film in that vein, focusing on strong centra ..
Stuff
4.5
True love, the film suggests, must go deeper than giving each other what they profess to want, one must go deeper and provide instead what they dont e ..
Ar Kansas Online
4.4
The movie makes it easy to understand the appeal that this might have for her.
Larsen On Film
4.5
Its a terrific breakthrough performance, wise and clever and sexy.
Vanity Fair
4.0
There may not be blood in this final collaboration between Day Lewis and director screenwriter Paul Thomas Anderson, but psychic mayhem surely lies in ..
The Arts Desk
5.0
Whilst it is clearly intellectual and can probably be considered pompous, this film is also bloody funny.You will find yourself belly laughing at his ..
The Sun
5.0
The haunted artist portrayed by Daniel Day Lewis in Phantom Thread creates dresses for wealthy women.
Wsj
3.0
Day Lewis goes out on a high, delivering another indelible and Oscar worthy performance, if this is indeed his final bow.One hopes not.
Patriot Ledger
5.0
The game is afoot for these three characters, and Anderson is a cunning and nicely manipulative gamemaster.
Sltrib
4.5
(This scene, as well as a few others, features the sharp and very odd humor that marks many of PTAs best films.
Film
4.5
If true, it will be a great loss to film, but what a performance to go out on.
Film
5.0
It is a wonderfully strange moment in a film packed full of them.
Scmp
3.0
The power changes throughout and youre never quite sure how it will all end up.
The Film Pie
5.0
Reynolds hunches over his sketchpad and fusses over every stitch of every dress he creates whether its a wedding gown for a beautiful young princess, ..
Chicago Sun Times
4.0
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Punch Drunk Critics
5.0
The story of a man who uses, and gradually loses, his toxic power may appear rigidly architectural at first, but almost nothing goes the way you expec ..
Straight
2.0
It presents an ideal and even inspires wonder, but it does make breathing difficult, and heaven help you if all you want is to have a good time.
Sandiego Reader
4.5
Movies about domineering artists ask a relevant question: how much abuse will you take for the sake of the art.The fact that the art on display in Pha ..
We Live Entertainment
4.0
But listening to it removed from the film reveals a richly textured, deliberate manipulation of mood.There might be no better partnership between film ..
Cinemix Tape
5.0
The actor is once again paired with Anderson (both have earned nods for Best Actor and Best Director).
Straits Times
5.0
Its a movie about a rapid change of pace for the artist at its center, and, in its finest moments, that shift feels just as true of its maker.
The Ringer
5.0
With a few 70mm film prints of this film promised, it is a spectacle to be seen in a theater and nowhere else for a while.
Dead Line
3.5
While it links up thematically, it is just too much of a stretch, and leaves you feeling much more puzzled than anything close to satisfied.
Metro New York
5.0
This is Alma, a candid featured, rather clumsy and hesitant waitress, of a quiet beauty that you could easily fail to remark onor be knocked down by i ..
Film Comment
4.4
Its deliberate in its drama and undeniable in its effectiveness of virtually every viewpoint of its production.
Awards Circuit
4.0
And the film gives you a sense that Anderson has a complicated ethos over whether a creative genius should be pampered and coddled or they should be c ..
Bitly
5.0
In fact, Alma emerges as the films most compelling protagonist, thrillingly upending the familiar artist muse dynamic.Phantom Thread is an exploration ..
The Skinny
5.0
The end result is an incredible, brilliantly acted portrait of a destructive relationship in which the destructive parts might be what make it thrive.
Scots Man
5.0
Its a testament to the level of excellence inspired by Andersons impeccable coordination that Day Lewiss two greatest roles were delivered for him, in ..
Under The Radar Mag
5.0
Its a wonderfully strange character study whose odd gothic twists make its final destination hard to guess.
Post Gazette
4.5
Jessica Chastain is a fine actress. Idris Elba is a fine actor. Aaron Sorkin is one of the greatest screenwriters to ever live. Unfortunately, the thr ..
The Daily Beast
5.0
Its a performance of such concentration and commitment that it achieves the rare feat of seeming completely and utterly effortless, whether hes alone ..
The Daily Beast
4.5
Its a drop dead gorgeous movie, with a blunt conservative edge to its beauty.
Alternate Ending
5.0
Phantom Thread is a sumptuous aesthetic experience full of masterful performances and craft, orchestrated by a master filmmaker.
Lainey Gossip
5.0
Exquisite garments are constructed; glorious music is played; and three actors quietly take us on a journey.
Seattle Times
3.0
This altogether mediocre design turns this master tailor into the pariah of the fashion scene.It essentially goes out of style once it hits the runway ..
Fresh Fiction
5.0
But Day Lewis dispels our derision with sheer force of personality.
East Bay Express
2.0
It is solid and able, but uninspired.But repression isnt an inspiring quality.
Tony Mack
5.0
Its a film thats carefully woven from the fabric of human urges, teeming with hidden layers and positively bursting at the seams with emotional detail ..
Concrete Play Ground
3.0
This is cinema that dares you to look away, lest you miss some subtle nuance in its elegant design.
National Post
5.0
The tension between Andersons wicked sense of humour and his immaculate craftsmanship the latter placed in even sharper relief by scenes depicting Rey ..
Bfi
5.0
A thriller inspired by Hitchcocks Rebecca, as director writer Paul Thomas Anderson has suggested
Original Cin
5.0
Phantom Thread is a revisionist genre film. Set in the 1950s, it not only reworks fashion flicks from Lucy Gallant to Funny Face (the complementary co ..
National Review
5.0
Instead, he starts with a feeling or mood, works obsessively on costumes, sets, photography and music, but is content to leave the story half baked.Th ..
National Review
5.0
If Phantom Thread has a problem, it is that its so full of fraught confrontations, even those that are outwardly genteel, that it sometimes feels more ..
New States Man
5.0
But Ridley Scotts latest retelling of the 1973 kidnapping of Gettys 16 year old grandson, whom Getty refused to pay the paltry US$17 million ransom fo ..
The New Paper
4.5
Daniel Day Lewis performance in Phantom Thread proves he will be missed from the big screen.
Cultured Vultures
5.0
Its maniacal, steady and very much the story of a woman as well as a man.Multiple viewings should draw out more rich detail, as well as listening clos ..
New City Film
4.0
Its a worthwhile, colourful dollop of time killing family fodder that honours the tradition of anthropomorphised animals set in train by Disney and la ..
Tiny Url
4.0
Nothing must disturb the great mans daily routine hell scream at you if you butter your toast too loud at the breakfast table.
Fw Weekly
5.0
Why Alma loves this petulant genius is something the film doesnt really make any effort to explain.Its just a fact, and an occasionally infuriating on ..
Ap News
5.0
As anyone would expect, Day Lewis gives a performance thats a fitting curtain call for a career that he leaves as one of the all time greats.
Columbus Alive
5.0
Fitting scenes, where the client must be made to feel special, twirl us into an exquisite tension between costumer and costumed.
Vue Weekly
5.0
Reynolds and his sister may be wearing luxurious tweeds, wools, and satins, but as characters theyre as stiff and soulless as hulls made from the plai ..
Sf Weekly
3.8
The result is not just a film to wrestle with and talk about, but enjoy.
Sf Chronicle
4.4
This is a romantic drama with a notable undercurrent of comedy and its inherently relatable, even when it goes to an off kilter place.
Am Ny
5.0
Under Andersons watchful, thoughtful eye, nothing is taken for granted.
Washington City Paper
4.0
Phantom Thread is a spiritually woven drama, marked by the gentle violence of tactile performances, and the distinctive vision of a master craftsman; ..
Film Ireland
5.0
It is a wonderfully fixating film in every respect, and wholly non formulaic.
Spectator
4.4
The tone feels dialed in from another movie, but Anderson, ever the master of continuity and flow, holds it all together.As staid an affair as Phantom ..
Cambridge Day
3.0
Andersons screenplay best serves Day Lewis, but Krieps does plenty to stay relevant and makes a nice accounting as the film draws to a close.
Movie Chambers
5.0
The film caps with a phantasmagorical New Years Eve celebrationlike Baz Luhrmann, only in good taste.Despite Andersons distractingly clumsy tale telli ..
Metro Active
3.8
Either way, its love, albeit of the strangest, funniest sort.And Phantom Thread is deeply funny, though it took two viewings for the comedy to truly s ..
Free Beacon
3.8
Here, theres a certain playfulness that saves the movie from its worst excesses.
Film Festival Today
3.5
Krieps certainly tries hard to give the drama some heart, but its not really enough, and ultimately this winds up stitching itself into a slightly pre ..
Adelaide Review
5.0
Even in a character study, the characters eventually must do something.
Denerstein Unleashed Blog ..
5.0
After a half hour worth of needles pulling thread and three bumpy shots of them driving out a country road, its clear that Anderson didnt make a perio ..
Willamette Week
4.0
In Paul Thomas Andersons Phantom Thread, the camera floats in straight lines or stays still, either capturing Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day Lewis) wor ..
Cinema Express
5.0
Lesley Manvilles Cyril provides ballast to every potent interaction.
Kdhx
5.0
And now Phantom Thread is a half harrowing, half tender chamber piece about the nature of love that also pokes, amusingly, at the supposed importance ..
The Week
4.5
Day Lewis gives an extremely measured performance that demands all the awards attention hes getting.
Times Now News
4.0
These characters are tantalizingly intriguing, which makes it all the more exasperating that director Paul Thomas Anderson is so stingy about plot and ..
Aarp
5.0
A decade ago Day Lewis and Anderson collaborated on There Will Be Blood.
Kpbs
5.0
By Eleanor Ringel CaterWith Phantom Thread, Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson have made precisely the movie they wanted to make.This is not as ..
Saportare Port
2.0
I suppose one day hell age out of it.But The Commuter, for all its flaws, is vastly superior to Non Stop, the airplane version of the same general sto ..
Splice Today
5.0
Visually sumptuous though it is, this is a brilliantly nuanced, psychologically complex story about obsession, love, control and surrender, all cloake ..
Bbc
4.5
The tone is uniformly adult, with adult humour and adult behaviour, and so is the filmmaking, which assumes that beautifully lit 35mm film is the only ..
Cinema Scope
5.0
Day Lewis is one of the greatest actors we have and this is one of his most extraordinary performances.
Buffalo News
1.5
If Anderson has left a message within the lining of this meticulously constructed, exquisitely performed, but ultimately self indulgent and morally va ..
Huffing Ton Post
5.0
But the viewer is assured a satisfying journey, marked by great performances, beautiful costumes and luxe interiors.
Pgh City Paper
3.0
The most incisive comment of all might be that no one as demanding as Reynolds Woodcock could ever be truly happy.
Metro Weekly
5.0
But Im not sure that the odd, off putting story is worth all this lavish attention to detail.
Leonard Mal
4.5
Kruger tears through all the emotions in her first German language film.
Daily News
5.0
If Phantom Thread is an excellent portrait of an artist, it is not a predictable or conventional one.
Seattle Weekly
5.0
Given delicate strength by the Luxembourgian actress Vicky Krieps, Alma provides Reynolds with newfound energy and a surge of fresh inspiration.
Vogue
1.5
If you love Aaron Sorkin, youre almost certain to love his zippy directorial debut.
Vogue
1.5
At 140 minutes the film itself overstays its welcome, it is not half as clever as it clearly thinks it is and women are strictly optional extras.
Herald Scotland
2.0
The miniaturization is another reason why this deeply pessimistic story bounces along so genially.
The Nation
3.0
Get Out (dir.Jordan Peele) Dark comedy, sharp social satire and mainstream horror elements merge into the strange and smartly written first feature by ..
Sa Current
5.0
But for myself and many others, it is not a love story but a horror film.
Bust
4.5
With its tongue firmly planted in its each, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle knows how ridiculous its premise is, but it runs with it, and consistently ..
The Jam Report
4.0
New classic is one of the dumbest oxymorons in our dictionary, but it fits Phantom Thread like a glove.Paul Thomas Andersons latest appears torn out o ..
Student Edge
4.0
Absent any answers or explanations, Anderson examines the clash between romance and idiosyncrasy and the results can be sharply funny.
Brightest Young Things
4.0
Strange and seductive, Phantom Thread is if indeed it is a fitting exit for one of the greatest screen actors in history.
Ex Press
2.0
Before all the shouts of Look! and Over there! could reach the front of the boat, the majority of the onlookers had run to the one side, making the bo ..
The Monitor
5.0
This films tensive beauty and white hot performances, not to mention its brilliant score and letter perfect direction, may well distract the average f ..
Arts Fuse
4.0
Reynolds is a miserable prick with Mommy issues and his story is a slow burn exploration into the intricacies of the human condition.Youll think you k ..
Reel Reviews
4.5
Home > Life & Culture > Movies In Phantom Thread, the Power Games Transcend Sex Its impossible to take your eyes off the screen in Phantom T ..
Haaretz
5.0
Phantom Thread, a film about concealment that is also an exercise in concealment, can very satisfyingly be read backwards and forwards, from inside ou ..
Ny Books
5.0
This is a fiendishly funny movie, one thats extremely self aware and follows its own internal logic to a conclusion that makes perfect sense while bei ..
Wbur
5.0
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The Cinema Phile Blog
5.0
If thats truly the case and theres no reason to suggest it wont be then the renowned actor is retiring in style.
I News
5.0
And Anderson (who shot the movie himself) has created a dark love story that is wickedly funny and that offers some of the best performances of the ye ..
Business Insider
3.0
Between a score that features incessantly twinkly piano music which makes viewers feel like theyre trapped in an elevator, and Day Lewis constant pree ..
Pasadena Weekly
5.0
Theres no mistaking a Hollywood Popcorn Flick.Between the big laughs and over the top action sequences, audiences dont have to think too hard: its esc ..
Pasadena Weekly
5.0
Manville can convey volumes with a single smile or slight gestureher performance is a study in subtlety.
Baltimore Magazine
3.1
Film Review: The Party by Lisa Jensen March 15, 2018 Betrayal, revenge, artifice, sour The Party
Good Times
5.0
All this despite, typical of Anderson, the films being something that doesnt fit easily into anyones idea of what a mainstream movie should be.
Spokane7
4.0
If not the blockbuster to end all the other blockbuster Day Lewis movies, this film shows what a work of art a movie can be.
Its Just Movies
5.0
The Academy have taken the bait, awarding the film six Oscar nominations including best picture, best direction and best lead actor.
Daily Review
3.5
The creation has achieved a life of its own and is worth more than the buyer.
Phantom Tollbooth
5.0
Anderson exquisitely invokes the spirit of classic Hollywood films, but without pretension.
Newport This Week
5.0
When Reynolds sets his eyes on another willowy beauty to take Johannas place, the mood isnt romantic so much as it is predatory.Wrapped around the coo ..
Medium
5.0
Nor, thanks to Day Lewiss and Kriepss performances, are we.The struggle between the safety of the familial and the danger of exogamy is one of several ..
Art Forum
5.0
Heres hoping Andersons poisoned mushroom of a movie wont start a cinematic fashion trend of its own.
Gay City News
5.0
But this is a film to savour not for its narrative twists but its air of thickening psychological complexity.
Big Issue
2.0
What were left with is one of the most implausible and uninteresting action movies of 2018.
AXS.com
2.0
You can pin all the plaudits you want on this movie but in the end it is one sick puppy.
Jackiek Cooper
4.5
Sorkin is blessed to have Jessica Chastain playing Molly: She can handle the pacing of his dialog and her face and body are magic on film.
Malibu Times
3.5
Im Rain Jokinen and I wrote my first movie review at the age of twelve.
Mulling Movies
4.5
If your work is beautiful enough, your soul can be made of scabs and darkness.
Riot Material
5.0
Melodrama takes its subjects its women seriously; Anderson does not.
Another Gaze
5.0
Reminds me of Pablo Picasso. Brilliant in its savvy cruelty. Day Lewis delves deeply into his characters psyche. Best Actor of 2017!
Films In Review
5.0
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Its OK to cry like Carrie: Showtime has officially confirmed the eighth season of Homeland will be its last.
Arca Max
5.0
Phantom Thread also has a cryptic quality, refusing to reduce its central enigmastalent, love, and devotionto one size fits all.Melissa Anderson is th ..
4 Columns
5.0
The curvature of Andersons script here is worth contemplating; what weve seen up to this point has been, when you get down to it, a comedy of manners, ..
Vice
5.0
The director takes full advantage of the era and settings, the gaze of the camera is seductive, with sensuous light that washes over the characters an ..
Ancho Rage Press
5.0
We first see Harris Barbara Rose tottering up the steps of Woodcocks atelier on the arm of a male handler.
Nylon
4.0
Its a unique film with strong performances and one that deserves further reflection.
Blog Franciscan Media
5.0
Phantom Thread is, on its surface, about the haute couture scene in mid 1950s Britain and while that certainly photographs beautifully, this is a movi ..
Times Of Israel
5.0
Its commonplace to observe that the opposite of love is not hatred, but indifference.Love and hatred exist on a spectrum, one that can be traversed at ..
Neighbour Hood Paper
4.5
Thanks to the stars weapons grade charm, hes simultaneously exasperating and endearing.
Marie Claire
4.4
Anyone who has experienced the flush of first love will relate, but the fact that the film is specific and detailed both emotionally and physically in ..
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