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The following podcast contains explicit language.

I want to tell you my secret now.

I see dead people.

Silent green is evil.

Leave 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 will 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 Sime. 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, 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 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 and then it superseded them for me.

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