Feel-bad holiday flicks are just as important as the feel-good ones, and boy-howdy, you’ll be dizzy after this toxic romance – almost like you ate some bad mushrooms. Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2017 picture pits heavyweight method actor Daniel Day-Lewis against a fresh-faced and fearsome Vicky Krieps in a tumultuous affair between a dressmaker and his muse. Power struggles threaten to rend their relationship apart, but desire – for love, for control, for butter rather than oil – keeps them locked together for better or worse. Come for the saddest New Year’s Eve party ever; stay for Lesley Manville as the strict older sister you can’t get anything past. – James Scott
