This story contains spoilers for One Battle After Another. By now it’s well-documented that Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread was partly inspired by Anderson’s relationship with his longtime partner Maya Rudolph. It's been 23 years since Anderson has directed a film set in the present. There’s many theories about why this is, particularly if you’re unfortunate enough to be on Film Twitter. This fucking guy has been getting stoned in the woods for 16 years and doesn’t know how anything works anymore.