movie review

ANEMONE

Running time: 126 minutes. Rated R (language and traumatic revelations). In theaters.

Daniel Day-Lewis should’ve stayed retired.

Or at least come back in a better movie.

But the three-time Oscar winner couldn’t resist returning for his first film since “The Phantom Thread” eight years ago — the abysmal “Anemone.”

The title of the movie, directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis, refers to a pretty flower. Don’t come looking for anything beautiful here, though. This grueling hike through the Forest of Pretentiousness is closer in spirit to a sea anemone, an ocean creature whose sting causes itching and a rash.

I certainly wanted to scratch my eyes and ears out while Ray (Daniel Day-Lewis), a gruff man who lives in a shack in the Northern England woods, delivered an end

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