By Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post Three and one-half stars. Rated R. 130 minutes. Daniel Day-Lewis resembles an Easter Island sculpture crossed with a handsomely groomed Adonis in “Phantom Thread,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s ode to extravagance, texture, tyrannical auteurism and its most ingenious subversions. Day-Lewis plays Reynolds Woodcock, a soughtafter dress designer in 1950s London whose clientele — comprising mostly wealthy matrons — see Woodcock’s creations less as pretty dresses than a crucial part of their female armamentarium: “I feel like it will give me courage,” one of his customers says of an evening gown.
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