Anemone (now on Netflix) was monumental for one reason: the return of Daniel Day-Lewis. And here I pause to list the greatest works of our greatest living thespian in an incantation to ward off bad movies: My Left Foot, Last of the Mohicans, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln, A Room with a View, Gangs of New York, Phantom Thread. Did it work? Any bad movies nearby? Before answering that definitively, we should note that Day-Lewis is famously an elusive chap unconcerned with the trappings of Hollywood; he retired in the late 1990s to become a cobbler (something no other person, living or dead, would’ve done), and shuttered his career again after 2017’s Phantom Thread, on an absolute high note. But for Anemone, he did not ABANDON HIS CHILD, as it’s directed by his son, Ronan Day-Lewis, and they wrote the screenplay together. And here’s where we hope Daniel keeps working
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