Anemone

Directed by Ronan Day-Lewis (R)

★★

“It’s touching that Daniel Day-Lewis came out of retirement to launch his son’s movie career,” said in Variety . Alas, the project that the pair made together turns out to be “a dud of a movie—aridly pretentious and static, with too much self-conscious art photography and not enough drama.” As great as the 68-year-old actor often has been, he’s “not especially memorable” here, and though 27-year-old first-time director Ronan Day-Lewis “shows flashes of talent,” Anemone , for most of its 125 minutes, “just sits there.”

It arrives eight years after Daniel’s previous film, Phantom Thread , and the three-time Oscar winner’s magnetic intensity “remains undimmed,” said in The Hollywood Reporter . He plays Ray Stoker, a traumatized former

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