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ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
Anachronistic and phantasmagoric, America's early race for oil is brought into personal terms that resonate with the withering decay of greed. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
Boston Globe
Strictly speaking, "There Will Be Blood" doesn't come from the Bible. (It's sprung up from an 80-year-old-old Upton Sinclair novel.) But the movie has a stunning biblicality. In the beginning (the turn of the last century) there was a man. The man dug a ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Boston Globe
Jam! Movies (Liz Braun)
Performances, cinematography, writing, the amazing score from Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood -- we could go on. There Will Be Blood is odd, unsettling and completely engrossing, and just the thing to restore your faith in the movies. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Jam! Movies (Liz Braun)
Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)
An overwhelming experience...simple even as it is devastating. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)
Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
A work of stunning intelligence and dramatic sweep, a portrait of a young nation struggling to find itself, torn between religious and business values. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
Bronsonfive (Michael Ferraro)
It's like a version of Citizen Kane that Stanley Kubrick might have directed. But the film has enough to lay its own influence in the minds of future filmmakers to come. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Bronsonfive (Michael Ferraro)
Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Paul Thomas Anderson becomes California's certified cinematic poet laureate with There Will Be Blood . ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Denver Post (Lisa Kennedy)
If [Day-Lewis] does not win the Academy Award for this protean portrayal, it will be because he's won before. Or because his gift, his discipline, is so daunting it can be confounding. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Denver Post (Lisa Kennedy)
Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
There Will Be Blood reminds us that the greatest screen performances don't settle for capturing one trait, a dominant emotion or an easy way in. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Contra Costa Times (Mary F. Pols)
There will be no other film like it this year or next, nothing that sounds like it or looks like it or feels like it. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Contra Costa Times (Mary F. Pols)
The Deadbolt (Brian Tallerico)
There Will Be Blood will be incredibly rewarding for many movie-goers, giving them ample fodder to discuss and deconstruct for years to come. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The Deadbolt (Brian Tallerico)
TIME Magazine (Richard Schickel)
It requires time for Day-Lewis and Anderson to realistically explore the life-long processes of disillusion which is their film's true subject. But the promise their sometimes langorously paced film makes is openly stated in their title — yes, there wil ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at TIME Magazine (Richard Schickel)
Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
As surely as our country’s multiple personalities owe a great deal to both religious fervor and the oil industry, “There Will Be Blood” reminds us that the greatest screen performances don’t settle for capturing one trait, a dominant emotion or an ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)
It has been more than a month since I have seen “There Will Be Blood,” the eagerly awaited new film from Paul Thomas Anderson, the man behind such acclaimed works as “Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia” and “Punch Drunk Love,” and I am still reelin ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)
Philadelphia Weekly (Sean Burns)
His eyes are beady little slits, most of his face obscured by an enormous moustache. He speaks in the regal, wavering tones of actor/director John Huston, his body language spindly and ill-at-ease.
This is Daniel Plainview, the seething, miserable ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Philadelphia Weekly (Sean Burns)
Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
For bleakness, the movie can't be beat -- nor for brilliance. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Arizona Republic (Bill Goodykoontz)
There Will Be Blood is a masterpiece; Daniel Day-Lewis' performance as a ruthless oilman is without flaw. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Arizona Republic (Bill Goodykoontz)
Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
...as compelling and flat-out exhilarating as anything within the director's virtually flawless body of work. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)
A true American epic in every sense of the word%u2013the kind of film that people will be analyzing and admiring for as long as people will continue to do such things. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
The first time I saw this beautiful beast of a movie from director-writer Paul Thomas Anderson, I felt gut-punched. Some people winced during the first fifteen minutes of wordless darkness as Daniel Day-Lewis, deep in a mine shaft in the choking heat of ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson ("Punch-Drunk Love"/"Magnolia"/"Boogie Nights") in an offbeat manner films this ambitious, brooding, grandiose period film about capitalism (an oil man) and religion (a Christian evangelical preacher) joining hands in ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Palo Alto Online (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Paul Thomas Anderson plays true to form in this raw, original work loosely based on Upton Sinclair's sprawling 1927 novel ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Palo Alto Online (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
The exciting development of Paul Thomas Anderson continues to astonish with the arrival of his anxious epic There Will Be Blood. A showdown between the twin forces of capitalism and religion at the turn of the twentieth century, it is the most ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
eFilmCritic.com (Rob Gonsalves)
As someone who, in the past, has felt that the epic ambition of the writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has gotten the better of him, I was prepared to cringe throughout his latest saga, the much-heralded "There Will Be Blood." But this job is full of ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Rob Gonsalves)
Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)
A haunting enigma that refuses to conform to any recognizable pattern, period or otherwise. I suppose you could see it as a descendent of Citizen Kane . But such comparisons aren't really fair to either film. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)
FirstShowing.net (Ken Evans)
Going into this film I had no idea what to expect. Even in the weeks leading up to watching There Will Be Blood, people would ask me what it was about. I would answer, "It's about an oil driller in Texas around the turn-of-the-century." Not much of a ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at FirstShowing.net (Ken Evans)
Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
Sprawling yet cramped, There Will Be Blood may not be the best movie of the year, but it's certainly the strangest. It evokes passing comparisons to everything from Giant to Citizen Kane but it's impossible to pigeonhole. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
Foote on Film (John H. Foote)
Standing alongside Citizen Kane (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Godfather (1972) and its glorious sequel The Godfather Part II (1974), and Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980), Paul Thomas Anderson’s haunting new film There Will B ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Foote on Film (John H. Foote)
ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
WCBE's It's Movie Time (John DeSando)
"I hate most people. I want to earn enough money so I can get away from everyone." Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) in There Will Be Blood.
In 2007 I have one certainty: No one, but no one, can out act Daniel Day-Lewis, who, as Daniel Plainview ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at WCBE's It's Movie Time (John DeSando)
Empire Magazine [UK]
There Will Be Blood is emphatically not an easy watch. Before an image hits the screen, a mounting, atonal string note assaults the viewer’s ears, immediately inducing a feeling of unease - if not actual nausea. That’s followed by 20-odd minutes of ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Empire Magazine [UK]
The Times of London
There Will Be Blood is an old-fashioned beast of a film. A towering yarn about crude oil and God set in Texas at the turn of the 20th century. It's a biblical parable about America's failure to square religion and greed. But most of all it is a ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The Times of London
Hollywood Snitch - Mom Goes to the Movies (Karyn Bowman)
"There Will Be Blood" was not a movie I was looking forward to seeing.
But I needed to see before the Oscar award presentation because many people, including people I trust, talked of how great is this movie.
I am glad I did not listen to myself for ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Hollywood Snitch - Mom Goes to the Movies (Karyn Bowman)
Daniel Day-Lewis picks roles with patience and care that I wish would be emulated by others of his generation. This time he plays Daniel Plainview, a determined and sociopathic businessman that only smiles when he's bathed in oil. He's an oilman ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at
Cutting Edge
Familie, religie, olie en macht. Als regisseur moet je uit het juiste hout gesneden zijn om dit vierspan in de hand te houden. Geen nood: regisseur Paul Thomas Anderson is de man bij uitstek.
Daniel Day-Lewis speelt Daniel Plainview, iemand die ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Cutting Edge
The Critical Critics
To preface this, if you even remotely like character studies such as that done in Taxi Driver or any of Paul Thomas Anderson’s previous work like Boogie Nights or Magnolia, don’t even question if you should see There Will Be Blood or not, just do it. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The Critical Critics
A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
This is a film that feels shorter than its epic length and absolutely sticks with the viewer. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
Daniel Day-Lewis picks roles with patience and care that I wish would
be emulated by others of his generation. This time he plays Daniel
Plainview, a determined and sociopathic businessman that only smiles
when he's bathed in oil. He's an oilman ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at
Film Freak Central
The jarring, discordant first notes of Jonny Greenwood's score announce that Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood will realize the promise shown by the auteur's closest analog, Punch-Drunk Love. Almost experimental in its marriage of noise and ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Film Freak Central
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) lusts for oil. He can't get enough of it. Plainview isn't just a prospector but a man on a mission, fueled by contempt. His spiel to folks whose land he covets is ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
Daniel Day-Lewis' performance is the best of 2007, a towering portrayal of searing hatred. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Daniel Day-Lewis spends the opening moments of "There Will Be Blood" mute and stoic, so that when he finally does speak, the scene is charged with evolutionary significance. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
The Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
''There is a competition in me,'' says Daniel Plainview, the protagonist of Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. ``I want no one else to succeed.''That sentiment alone would not make Plainview, a miner turned oil prospector in ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
KPBS.org (Beth Accomando)
There Will Be Blood is as close to perfection as you will find in a movie. It's dark and bleak in its material yet uplifting in the beauty of its craftsmanship. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at KPBS.org (Beth Accomando)
eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
More than just the best film of the year, Blood is one of cinema's grandest character studies. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Anderson is attempting to harness the old-fashioned American Western epic with the probing psychology and intimacy of a modern-day character study. The fact that that character happens to be so repellent is one of the film's many strokes of genius. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
ReviewExpress.com (Diana Saenger)
For Plainview, his veins might as well have been filled with crude oil, for he never got the taste out of his mouth. In more ways than one, for him, that toxic dream became all too vivid. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at ReviewExpress.com (Diana Saenger)
eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Early in “There Will Be Blood,” Daniel Plainview is giving one of his trademark sales pitches, as slick as the oil he drills. The camera slowly, almost absentmindedly, begins to zoom in. And then it drifts over to the left, zooming in even more, its ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Boston Herald (James Verniere)
There will be blood and occasional overacting in “There Will Be Blood,” a powerful, visionary, at times insane American epic from director Paul Thomas Anderson. Flawed and utterly spellbinding, the film suggests a mash-up of Orson Welles’ “Citizen ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Boston Herald (James Verniere)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Oil. Blood. Bile. Ambition. Corruption. Hatred.
It's all spilled, messily and nakedly, in "There Will Be Blood," featuring a performance by Daniel Day-Lewis that may be the most intense and physically challenging of 2007. It's certainly the ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Thoughts on Film (Danielle Ní Dhighe)
Manhattan Movie Magazine (Marlow Stern)
An exegesis of capitalism and the 'Horatio Alger myth,' as well as a captivating character study, There Will Be Blood is a near-masterpiece of epic proportion. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Manhattan Movie Magazine (Marlow Stern)
ReelTalk Movie Reviews (Jeffrey Chen)
No lesson needs to be learned here, but observations can and should be noted because we're so rarely fed such coldly realistic characters. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at ReelTalk Movie Reviews (Jeffrey Chen)
Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)
Everything about this production is bold from Jack Fisk's stark period production design to the strikingly discordant score by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. And then there is the towering performance by the unparalleled Daniel Day-Lewis... ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)
About.com (Jurgen Fauth)
Destined to take its place among such ageless tragedies of American avarice as The Godfather, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Scarface, and yes, Citizen Kane . ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at About.com (Jurgen Fauth)
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Has the force and power of scripture. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
DVDTalk.com (Brian Orndorf)
It's almost needless to write that Daniel Day-Lewis tears into the role with hurricane-like authority. This is not acting, folks, it's a demonic possession. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at DVDTalk.com (Brian Orndorf)
EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
It's a refreshing change to see Daniel Day-Lewis get wild and woolly as Plainview, whose fearsomeness and villainy are electrifying. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
Newsday (Jan Stuart)
The watershed achievement of both Day-Lewis' and Anderson's careers. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Newsday (Jan Stuart)
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. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
cinemattraction (Brandon Fibbs)
There Will Be Blood is the sort of film you stumble out of, desperately searching, like a drowning man frantic for air, for an adjective that is both descriptive enough to encompass your experience and distinctive enough to convey your stratosphere-bound ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at cinemattraction (Brandon Fibbs)
Time Out New York (David Fear)
Paul Thomas Anderson’s first feature since 2002’s â€Punch-Drunk Love’ is loosely adapted from â€Oil!’, Upton Sinclair’s novel about, er, oil. The turn-of-the-century Texas setting could offer allegorical potential, while the rarely-seen Daniel ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Time Out New York (David Fear)
The Onion A.V. Club
Boogie Nights announced Paul Thomas Anderson's arrival as a precociously, ferociously gifted prodigy intent on beating his heroes (Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby, Quentin Tarantino) at their own game. Anderson's often-brilliant follow-up, ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The Onion A.V. Club
Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
This is not just the best performance of the year to date, but one of the great performance period. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
What Day-Lewis displays here is his extraordinary theatrical genius for the cinematic frame, which he's not reticent to make use of to its deepest dimension when the moment calls it out. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Densely rich, benefiting from Upton Sinclair literary source, with references to Citizen Kane, Treasure of Sierra Madre, and Giant, this uniquely American sprawling saga of capitalism and greed, family and faith, is Anderson's deepest, most ambitious work ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
CultureCartel.com (Chris Barsanti)
The landscape is harsh in Paul Thomas Anderson's impressively strange and enchanting epic There Will Be Blood; the sort of world only a madman would try and conquer. The dry, brown hills and empty horizons that constitute the early 20th century American ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at CultureCartel.com (Chris Barsanti)
Slant Magazine (Nick Schager)
Paul Thomas Anderson's prodigious filmmaking talents have always been somewhat compromised by his more show-offy tendencies, as his gift with both the camera and actors has at times been hindered by a self-conscious, look-at-me flamboyant streak. That ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Slant Magazine (Nick Schager)
Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
"What's in a name?" asks Shakespeare in Romeo & Juliet. "That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." Maybe, but when a writer gives a character a name, consciously or not, it holds a meaning. Take the protagonist of "There Will Be ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
WCBE's It's Movie Time (John DeSando)
"I hate most people. I want to earn enough money so I can get away from everyone." Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) in There Will Be Blood.
In 2007 I have one certainty: No one, but no one, can out act Daniel Day-Lewis, who, as Daniel Plainview ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at WCBE's It's Movie Time (John DeSando)
Newsweek (David Ansen)
Paul Thomas Anderson's extraordinary "There Will Be Blood" is a radical departure for the director of "Boogie Nights" and "Magnolia." Though epic in sweep—it covers 30 years in the life of Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a fiercely driven oil baron ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Newsweek (David Ansen)
Boxoffice Magazine (Ray Greene)
When a director who is not yet 40 creates a masterful work that extends his own vocabulary while enlarging our appreciation of earlier masters, the time has come to start comparing that filmmaker primarily against himself. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Boxoffice Magazine (Ray Greene)
Political Film Society
Socialist Upton Sinclair’s novels are not heartwarming. Oil! (1927), written in the context of President Harding’s teapot dome scandal, is no exception. The film version, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, exposes not only the ruthlessness of capitalis ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Political Film Society
MovieFreak.com (Sara M. Fetters)
The ambience and aura Anderson creates is undeniably enthralling, the film's longish running time seeming to run away in the proverbial blink of an eye. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at MovieFreak.com (Sara M. Fetters)
One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
[An] engrossing epic of misanthropy, capitalist monomania and religious quackery...at once savagely bleak from an emotional perspective and incredibly beautiful visually. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Hollywood.com (Brian Marder)
For the first several minutes of There Will Be Blood--just a small portion of its 160--there is no dialogue. Then Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) strikes oil. The year is 1898, and as time jumps ahead, Plainview is soon no longer struggling to make ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Hollywood.com (Brian Marder)
ShowBIZ Data
Already showered with awards from critics groups, There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Dillon Freasier, is opening in New York and Los Angeles today to universal acclaim. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times describes Day-Lewis's ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at ShowBIZ Data
Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
An Old Testament bellow of ferocity and pain that seduces us on so many levels you'd swear you could see the fourth wall tumbling down around our ears. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Viewers who require a sympathetic protagonist for their movies, beware! There Will Be Blood has no such hero for you. Look deep into Daniel Day-Lewis's perfect manifestation of fictional oil tycoon Daniel Plainview and you may not find a heart; in its ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Paul Thomas Anderson and Terrence Malick have something in common. Both are amazing directors, yet it takes them years to makes films. In the time the likes of Michael Bay churns out a couple duds, we are hopefully blessed with at least one film from one ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Visceral, volatile and epic. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Filmjerk.com (Brian Orndorf)
In his five-year absence from direction, Paul Thomas Anderson hasn't lost a beat. "There Will Be Blood" is his most grueling feature film; a punishing historical drama about the bitter rise of the oil barons, lobbing bile and rage at every hairpin turn ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Filmjerk.com (Brian Orndorf)
Just Press Play
It’s always mindblowing to see a director break out of his shell. With There Will Be Blood, director Paul Thomas Anderson delivers what could very well be a new American classic, and does so without the elements he’s typically known for. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Just Press Play
Onion AV Club (Nathan Rabin)
As long as money retains the power to poison men's souls, Anderson's uncompromising masterpiece will continue to resonate as a harrowing cautionary warning to a country with oil pumping through its veins, clouding its judgment and coarsening its soul. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Onion AV Club (Nathan Rabin)
Premiere Magazine (Glenn Kenny)
This film invaded my consciousness (literally -- I had a dream about it the first night I saw it, a very rare occurrence) and still has a tight, daunting grip on it. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Premiere Magazine (Glenn Kenny)
Looking Closer (Jeffrey Overstreet)
It's dedicated to Altman, and yet Blood feels more like a collaborative effort from Kubrick, Malick, Weir, and Coppola. And the bizarre finale is 100 percent Anderson. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Looking Closer (Jeffrey Overstreet)
efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
Daniel Plainview, the mesmerizingly amoral protagonist of â€There Will Be Blood,’ will do just about anything to acquire oil and the income it generates. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (â€Magnolia’), likewise, is willing to track him to depths ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
RopeofSilicon (Brad Brevet)
There Will be Blood is the latest in a string of 2007 films hell bent on depending on an audience's use of their brain just as much as their eyes. Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson has taken Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel "Oil!" and woven an interesting ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at RopeofSilicon (Brad Brevet)
The Cinematheque (Kevyn Knox)
Appreciating Great Trash (Chris Coleman)
The Guardian (Peter Bradshaw)
This is a film by Paul Thomas Anderson that has overshot the runway of movie modernity with something thrillingly, dangerously new.
That title is subtler than you think. Blood only makes its appearance in the very last, operatic scene. Before that, ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The Guardian (Peter Bradshaw)
Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
Director and writer Paul Thomas Anderson broke through to another level of brilliance with his amazing new film. The late and great director Robert Altman knew what he was doing when he handpicked PT Anderson to be by his side during the shooting of his ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
DVDActive (Gabriel Powers)
Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
New York Observer (Andrew Sarris)
Nonetheless, There Will Be Blood remains an impressive achievement in its confident expertness in rendering the simulated realities of a bygone time and place, largely with an inspired use of regional amateur actors and extras with all the right moves ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at New York Observer (Andrew Sarris)
Twitch (Todd Brown)
With his earlier work Anderson came across something like that annoying guy in college. You know, the one who was smarter than you, more talented than you, better looking than you and knew it all. While you couldn’t help but admire his work – and I ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Twitch (Todd Brown)
In Contention (Kristopher Tapley)
A stark narrative that counts among the best films of the year for its sheer artistic brilliance and, indeed, defiance. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at In Contention (Kristopher Tapley)
Variety (Todd McCarthy)
Boldly and magnificently strange, There Will Be Blood marks a significant departure in the work of Paul Thomas Anderson. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Variety (Todd McCarthy)
USA Today (Claudia Puig)
There Will Be Blood is a searingly intense and artful tale that grabs hold of the viewer from its jarring and wordless opening scenes and doesn't let ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at USA Today (Claudia Puig)
Los Angeles CityBeat (Andy Klein)
[Anderson's] skills are enough to make There Will Be Blood one of the year's most striking films; yet I still can't quite understand the level of praise it's garnering. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Los Angeles CityBeat (Andy Klein)
The New Zealand Herald (Peter Calder)
If this doesn't end up as the best film of the year it will still be the one with the most ludicrously inappropriate title.
"There Will Be Blood" was the tagline on one of the Saw slasher movies and it is a colossal misjudgment to append it to ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The New Zealand Herald (Peter Calder)
Variety (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Certain to be rewarded with year-end accolades, Anderson's film is a true American saga -- one that rivals Giant and Citizen Kane in our popular lore as origin stories about how we came to be the people we are. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Variety (Marjorie Baumgarten)
The New York Sun (S. James Snyder)
"There Will Be Blood" is anything but ordinary, and the reactions it will elicit will be anything but common. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The New York Sun (S. James Snyder)
Planet Sick-Boy (Jon Popick)
I think there were three or four films better than P.T. Anderson's Blood in theatres this year, but none of them were as simultaneously exhilarating and disturbing while leading me to a place I wasn't sure I wanted to go. Daniel Day-Lewis double-reverse ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Planet Sick-Boy (Jon Popick)
The New Yorker (David Denby)
Early in “There Will Be Blood,” an enthralling and powerfully eccentric American epic (opening on December 26th), Daniel Plainview climbs down a ladder at his small silver mine. A rung breaks, and Daniel (Daniel Day-Lewis) falls to the base of the sha ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The New Yorker (David Denby)
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Clint O'Connor)
The first dozen minutes or so of "There Will Be Blood" has no dialogue. It's not silent. There's plenty of grunting and groaning as a pained prospector chips away for tiny slivers of silver in the jagged uncertainty of a deep, dimly lit hole, ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Cleveland Plain Dealer (Clint O'Connor)
Entertainment Insiders (Adam Barnick)
Epic and intimate, larger than life as well as grounded and subtle, There Will Be Blood is a fascinating, layered tale of the financial rise and spiritual fall of Daniel Plainview, self-made oil tycoon and entrepreneur of the American West. A study of ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Entertainment Insiders (Adam Barnick)
New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
It’s sublime -- beautiful and ghastly at once. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)
Such moral arrangement is schematic, even conventional. But it’s also surprisingly effective (at least until a final, thudding encounter between father and son). Obviously, Daniel and Eli compete as archetypal and ongoing American forces, religion and ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)
Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
At its best, There Will Be Blood feels possessed of elements of Days of Heavhen , Chinatown and Lawrence of Arabia . And if it doesn't quite stand with those films, how remarkable that it can be mentioned alongside tem. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
There Will Be Blood, the astounding new film by Paul Thomas Anderson, is Horatio Alger by way of Faust.
It's the American Dream as tragedy, a devil's bargain born not of failure or capricious deities but of a man's indecent rush toward an object ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
Slate (Dana Stevens)
With his fifth film, There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson goes from the brainy poet of new American cinema to its deranged visionary. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Slate (Dana Stevens)
d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)
For one, let’s not think that There Will Be Blood is a departure for Paul Thomas Anderson, who loosely adapted the film from Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil!. It was Anderson’s whimsical, lovely Punch-Drunk Love (2002) that left behind the director’s ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)
Philadelphia Daily News (Gary Thompson)
That this insistently grim movie remains watchable is due in large measure to Day-Lewis, playing another wild-eyed eccentric (shades of Bill the Butcher) to mesmerizing effect. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Philadelphia Daily News (Gary Thompson)
The Globe and Mail
Rising sky-high on a geyser of critical praise, Paul Thomas Anderson's intense and strange new film about the early days of the oil industry, There Will Be Blood, has already been declared a masterpiece and compared to the films of Orson Welles and ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The Globe and Mail
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Michael Machosky)
"There Will Be Blood," based loosely on Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!," is about the early days of the oil boom in America, and a singular American character. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Michael Machosky)
Chicago Tribune (Geoff Berkshire)
An examination of the life of Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a fictional oil pioneer who transforms himself from a lowly silver miner to a powerful and influential early 20th-century tycoon, letting nothing, and no one, get in his way in the ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Chicago Tribune (Geoff Berkshire)
Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Loosely adapted from the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!, this operatic drama rivets us to the seat from the wordless opening reel and never lets us go. This is robust, fierce filmmaking with a staggeringly detailed central character. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Miami Poetry Review (Mitchell Warren)
There Will Be Blood promises what it delivers but it delivers blood on his own terms, as Charles Foster Kane might say it. You don't get blood right away or the type of blood that you're expecting. The people who deserve to get bloodied don't always get ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Miami Poetry Review (Mitchell Warren)
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