Review of Phantom Thread (2017) by Tkc88 — 21 Jun 2018

Paul Thomas Anderson films are the kind that you either love or passionately dislike.

I fall into the latter category (with the exception of The Master, which was a tightly made drama). While some of the cinematography is beautiful, the dialogue is painfully unrelatable and not written in a way that I have ever heard people speak in my lifetime. The performances hit the mark in that they achieve what PTA is going for, however the characters are not compelling enough for you to invest your time and/or emotion in to. There is no character arc to speak of; tired old themes of mother issues are forced down your throat with no actual pay off. The story never really progresses until the final two minutes, and by that time you're left wondering why you have invested two hours of your time watching these horrible, uninteresting people.