The following podcast contains explicit language.

I want to tell you my secret now.

I see dead people.

Silent green is people.

Need my sister and my daughter.

Rosberg.

What's in the box?

And like that, he's gone.

Hello, and welcome to another Slate, spoiler special.

I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and this week we'll be spoiling Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, Phantom Thread.

Here to talk with me about

Phantom Thread is the writer and freelancer and my friend Rachel Syme. Hi, Rachel. Sounds great.

Hi. So yeah, we saw Phantom Thread together a few weeks ago. We did. It was a movie date.

And we had such a good conversation about it at dinner afterwards that I thought that you were the only person I wanted to spoil the movie with. So thank you for coming in. Thank you for having me. So where do we begin with Phantom Thread? First of all, what I usually do is just get a thumbnail response of joy, pain, anger, misery, whatever. Do you recommend this movie? And then we'll get into the details. Well, my thumbnail response is of

like pure joy. I love this movie. I highly recommend it. Yeah, I'm with you. I was waiting for

it all year and then it finally came and it's so rare that something like matches those kinds of

expectations and then it superseded them for me. Especially this movie because it was wrapped in all of

this kind of mystery and hype. Right. Just like movie because it was wrapped in all of this kind of mystery

and hype. Right. Just like three stills I meditated on of Daniel Day Lewis somewhere in the

English countryside like getting gas. I like have that, the like image saved on my computer

somewhere and I was just like, someday this movie will come. And there was no title released, I think,

until midway into the year or something like that. And titled Paul Thomas Anderson London Fashion Project or something. And then there was no title released, I think, until midway into the year or something like that. And it was called Paul Thomas Anderson London Fashion Project or something.

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