On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 90% based on 78 reviews and an average rating of 8.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Phantom Thread's finely woven narrative is filled out nicely by humor, intoxicating romantic tension, and yet another impressively committed performance from Daniel Day-Lewis."[21] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 92 out of 100 based on 33 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[22]