The good and the bad in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread

First, the good thinks about Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread (2017): It's a movie about the head of a highly successful, exclusive fashion line (Reynolds Woodcock, played by Daniel Day Lewis), so as you can imagine the costuming - not just the dresses but everyone's attire, including seamstresses and maids - is fantastic and beautiful, even to someone (me) who could care less about fashion, in fact hardly agree to recognize the field as anything other than a commercial scam to get people to buy new clothes every year. Second, PTA does beautiful camera work and always has - wonderful tracking shots, and a kind of trademark fantasy scene near the end of the film (balloons floating down from the ceiling following a raucous New Year's celebration). Third, nice art direction as a late 40s period piece, including not just the styles but the cars, the London streets and interiors. Fourth, a surprisingly beautiful original score (overplayed at one point, but otherwise ah homage throughout to fine chamber music). I see a # of academy awards there as well as a nomination for DDL, esp as he's indicated that this will be his last film. On the other hand, of course, is it a good movie? Frankly, no. Woodcock is throughout a thoroughly unlikable, self-centered egotist - not that all characters must be likable but we should at least have some sympathy for or empathy w/ the central character and w/ him I had none, zero. Why his love interest lets herself be such a doormat for him - well, that's never explained either. And the conclusion of the movie is so over-the-top ridiculous that even if you've stayed w/ it till near the end you're sure to shrug your shoulders at the wrap-up and say, really? Can anyone believe this? Aristotle identified "spectacle" as one of the key elements of drama (along with character, plot, setting, music, language - am I remembering this correctly or are some of these modern emendations?), but he was wise enough to note that spectacle is the least significant of them all. Buyer, beware.