Rating movies at the finish of their respective years is all the time a difficult activity. Director Paul Thomas Anderson is now beloved amongst cinephiles first such hits as There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread, but one of his most underseen and most deliciously inscrutable movies is 2012’s The Grasp. Set in the aftermath of WWII, the movie follows army vet Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) as he drifts into the lifetime of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the charismatic chief of a cult like religious movement. What sets apart The Grasp from the remainder of PTA’s work is the…