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There Will Be Blood (2007) Rank 2 Reviews
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Tolucan Times (Tony Medley)
Day-Lewis gives a spirited performance in this too long, plotless character study. Whether it's histrionic or award-quality has to be up to the viewer. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Tolucan Times (Tony Medley)
Metromix.com (Matt Pais)
A very, very well made film that elicits more of an intellectual than emotional reaction. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Metromix.com (Matt Pais)
Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
TheMovieChicks.com (Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone)
The movie looks amazing, the oil business is interesting, and the period is brilliantly captured, but the story isn't as good as all that. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at TheMovieChicks.com (Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone)
Bullz-Eye.com
M
isery may love company, but it loves Oscars even more, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” is the perfect example. A surefire candidate for several of the year’s major awards, the film doesn’t feature a single uplifting moment ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Bullz-Eye.com
Film-Forward.com (Kent Turner)
Together [Day-Lewis and Dano] produce the year's most mercurial moments. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Film-Forward.com (Kent Turner)
Movies for Guys (Mack Guffin)
In this strange, intense movie, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (BOOGIE NIGHTS), the earth is a harsh, dangerous mistress, poised at any moment to reverse pressure on those trying to suck oil out of it and impale them ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Movies for Guys (Mack Guffin)
Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
More oil and sweat than passion and ideas course through There Will Be Blood , a film about the California petroleum boom of the early 20th century that is as anemic as it is ambitious. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies
A “Chinatown” for the oil fields minus the incest, “There Will Be Blood” harkens to a time when goddamn movie studios made big-ass, on-location, gaudy MOVIES, for the love of God! That people LOVED for Christ’s sake! With gorgeous SETS and ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies
Gorilla Pants (Melissa Prusi)
There Will Be Blood is a portrait of a man consumed by ambition and greed, a single-minded oilman who has no mind for anything but the next big strike. Pointing at the one section of a map of the region without his name on it, he petulantly asks his real ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Gorilla Pants (Melissa Prusi)
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Individual scenes and sequences are too strange, haunting and emotionally right for the film to be dismissed. There should be no attempt or temptation to dismiss it. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
The Movie Boy (Dustin Putman)
With its foreboding title, "There Will Be Blood" makes a promise that it doesn't keep. That is not to say that the film is totally bereft of the red stuff, or even that it's a horror movie (at least in the conventional sense). What writer-director Paul ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The Movie Boy (Dustin Putman)
Three Movie Buffs (Scott Nash)
And the award for most over-rated film of the year goes to, There Will Be Blood. It has received tons of critical support, won awards and been nominated for many more. Now I hate to pull an "Eric", but I kind of suspect this has something to do with its ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Three Movie Buffs (Scott Nash)
Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
nother film-school-in-a-box by Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood is a triumph of vivid, overly assertive aesthetic minutiae—crammed to its oil-slicked rafters with highly stylized forms of art direction, cinematography, performance, dialogue, an ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)
Ambitious as hell but irreparably flawed, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood enthralls for half its run but balances precariously atop an epilogue that can't sustain the picture's dramatic weight. Picture a circus elephant perched on a beach ball ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)
Film Journal International (Lewis Beale)
A major work from an extremely talented director. But it is also a flawed, and at times distasteful, piece that will turn off as many viewers as it turns on. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Film Journal International (Lewis Beale)
Bangitout.com (Jordan Hiller)
Interesting, original, quality work. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Bangitout.com (Jordan Hiller)
NewsBlaze (Prairie Miller)
Daniel Day-Lewis does an oil maniac in this emotionally drenched gut-slicing and grueling bipolar gore, and what is surely the most grotesque screen image ever of a warped male maternal instinct. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at NewsBlaze (Prairie Miller)
The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
“There Will Be Blood,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to Hell. Set against the backdrop of the Southern California oil boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, it tells a stor ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
If Day-Lewis' Oscar-bound turn is one of the strongest of the year, it only calls more attention to the weaknesses around him. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
FirstShowing.net (Jaq Greenspon)
What was Paul Thomas Anderson thinking? In his new movie, There Will Be Blood, the auteur filmmaker is taking a lesser known novel by Upton Sinclair, Oil!, and turning it into a long, boring rumination on… well, that's part of the problem, He never ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at FirstShowing.net (Jaq Greenspon)
Among the things I disliked about the very talented Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie There Will Be Blood, perhaps the thing I disliked most was its use of music. I could put up with a bit of Arvo Pärt to illustrate the otherworldliness of the Western ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at
kids-in-mind
Daniel Day-Lewis stars as a silver prospector in the late 1800s who strikes oil and becomes wealthy by buying up petroleum-rich but un-farmable land in Texas from poor farmers. However, he soon discovers that wealth and power do not guarantee a ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at kids-in-mind
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