Anderson is regarded by his fan base as an artistic ... as a coldly mesmerizing art stunt. Coming after “There Will Be Blood” and “The Master,” “Phantom Thread” is the third film ...

“Phantom Thread” is a thing of beauty with darkness ... Woodcock and fierce protector of her brother’s mystique. When a fan tells Reynolds she wishes she could be buried in a Woodcock ...

It’s perversely amusing to imagine a certain strain of PTA fans clutching their pearls ... in shadow plays of life-begets-art – but what sets Phantom Thread apart is that it isn’t an ...

Paul Thomas Anderson isn’t one of these men, but if “Phantom Thread,” his absolutely sublime recent film, is of any indication, he’s terrified that he might become one. It’s a self-reflective piece ...

because the subject of “Phantom Thread” is love, the tumultuous power of love, and the proximity of creation and destruction in art and love alike. “Phantom Thread”—set, like “The ...

Or how bizarrely true to life — to art, to love, to itself — it feels. “Phantom Thread" is rated R. If children see clothes like these, who knows what they might get into their heads.

But both characters are driven; Plainview is driven by avarice whereas Woodcock is driven by a passion to turn his designs into works of art. At its core, “Phantom Thread” weaves a unique love ...

In “Phantom Thread,” Daniel Day-Lewis plays an imperious and eccentric fashion designer named Reynolds Woodcock in 1950s London in the years after World War II. His character approaches ...

Art house cinema is the opposite in every ... skate a thin line between the two realms, though his latest, “Phantom Thread”, settles solidly into the latter category. “Phantom Thread ...