Critic Reviews
There Will Be Blood (2007) Rank 5 Reviews
Expert Review Summary
based on (239) reviews
Click on the numbers to the right of the graph to see reviews of that rating
Poor
0
(0)
Reviews by Score:
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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 â yes, there wil ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at TIME Magazine (Richard Schickel)
efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
Daniel Plainview, the mesmerizingly amoral protagonist of âThere Will Be Blood,â will do just about anything to acquire oil and the income it generates. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (âMagnoliaâ), likewise, is willing to track him to depths ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Just Press Play
Itâs 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 heâs typically known for. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Just Press Play
Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
As surely as our countryâs multiple personalities owe a great deal to both religious fervor and the oil industry, âThere Will Be Bloodâ reminds us that the greatest screen performances donât settle for capturing one trait, a dominant emotion or an ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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
Political Film Society
Socialist Upton Sinclairâs novels are not heartwarming. Oil! (1927), written in the context of President Hardingâs 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
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)
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)
efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)
It has been more than a month since I have seen âThere Will Be Blood,â the eagerly awaited new film from Paul Thomas Anderson, the man behind such acclaimed works as âBoogie Nights,â âMagnoliaâ and âPunch Drunk Love,â and I am still reelin ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Thoughts on Film (Danielle N Dhighe)
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)
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)
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)
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 Scorseseâs Raging Bull (1980), Paul Thomas Andersonâs haunting new film There Will B ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Foote on Film (John H. Foote)
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)
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
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)
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
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 viewerâs ears, immediately inducing a feeling of unease - if not actual nausea. Thatâs 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)
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)
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)
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
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 Andersonâs previous work like Boogie Nights or Magnolia, donât 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
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)
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
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
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
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 sweepâit 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 âThere Will Be Blood,â 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)
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 Andersonâs first feature since 2002âs âPunch-Drunk Loveâ is loosely adapted from âOil!â, Upton Sinclairâs 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)
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
ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Boston Herald (James Verniere)
There will be blood and occasional overacting in âThere Will Be Blood,â 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 Wellesâ âCitizen ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Boston Herald (James Verniere)
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)
The Cinematheque (Kevyn Knox)
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)
Appreciating Great Trash (Chris Coleman)
DVDActive (Gabriel Powers)
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)
Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
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)
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)
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)
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)
PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)
Such moral arrangement is schematic, even conventional. But itâs 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)
The New Yorker (David Denby)
Early in âThere Will Be Blood,â 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)
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)
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 couldnât help but admire his work â 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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)
For one, letâs not think that There Will Be Blood is a departure for Paul Thomas Anderson, who loosely adapted the film from Upton Sinclairâs novel Oil!. It was Andersonâs whimsical, lovely Punch-Drunk Love (2002) that left behind the directorâs ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)
New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
Its sublime -- beautiful and ghastly at once. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
ReelTalk (Diana Saenger)
If you're an action junkie, need stupid humor or steamy jazz numbers to get you enticed into watching a movie, then There Will Be Blood is not for you. The movie's 17-minute opening sequence uses no dialogue while showing a stern prospector wiggling his ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at ReelTalk (Diana Saenger)
Christian Spotlight on the Movies
With itâs 8 Oscar Nominations, including Best Picture, Paul Thomas (âMagnolia,â âBoogie Nightsâ) Andersonâs adaptation of a novel by Upton Sinclair will surely generate a buzz for both general and Christian audiences. Christian audiences shoul ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies
Screen International (--)
There Will Be Blood is a vivid, sprawling parable about greed and moral corrosion. Set in the majestic American Southwest circa 1900, Paul Thomas Anderson's film will ride to the box-office largely on Daniel Day Lewis's volcanic performance as Daniel ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Screen International (--)
Comingsoon.net
After finding oil, California miner Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) turns oil drilling into a lucrative business that's going well until he encounters Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), the evangelical minister of a small religious town called Little Boston, ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Comingsoon.net
World Socialist Web Site
Histrionic, fatally confused and socially evasive, Paul Thomas Andersonâs There Will Be Blood is all the worse for its touching upon important subjects, oil and religion in American life. Putting the best interpretation on it, Anderson is simply way in ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at World Socialist Web Site
musicOMH (Anton Bitel)
In 1911, having already had some success with oil prospecting, Daniel follows a tip-off to the community of Little Boston in California, accompanied by his adopted son H.W. (Dillon Freasier) and his right hand man Fletcher (Ciarán Hinds). There he finds ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at musicOMH (Anton Bitel)
Wolf Entertainment Guide (William Wolf)
The driving force of the film remains Day-Lewisâs extraordinary performance, one certainly to be seen and one which bids to compete for awards. It is his show. But the film itself, for all of its lack of depth beyond the obvious tale of hunger for wealt ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Wolf Entertainment Guide (William Wolf)
FilmStew.com (Kevin Biggers)
For the first twenty minutes of Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, not a single word is spoken. Instead, Anderson keeps his patient camera in places best positioned to build up the mood. We see a tall, solitary figure entrenched in a dark silver mine, ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at FilmStew.com (Kevin Biggers)
CinemaZone.dk
Han graver og hakker ufortrødent efter guld og borer døgnet rundt utaknemmeligt efter olie, som var der ingen dag i morgen. 2½ timers film senere har han fundet kilden til materiel rigdom såvel som til skyggesiden af den amerikanske drøm. Med en sjæ ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at CinemaZone.dk
The Phantom Tollbooth
Hopkins as Dr. Lecter. Nicholson as Jack Torrance. Bogart as Sam Spade. Brando as Vito Corleone. It is hard to picture anyone else in these roles.
Once you see There Will be Blood you will forever associate Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview. Lewis is ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The Phantom Tollbooth
Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern)
The wondrously monstrous hero of "There Will Be Blood," a turn-of-the-century oil man named Daniel Plainview, vents his rage against humanity by, among other things, threatening to bury his enemies alive. The man who wrote and directed this majestic ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern)
Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
There are only so many kinds of stories that can be told -- only six, some say, and Shakespeare told âem all best anyway. And there are only so many different ways of telling those tales on film (if anyone has put a number to it, Iâm not aware of it). ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Metromix.com (Geoff Berkshire)
This cinematic gut-punch is a wake-up call for the potential of a film to get under the viewers' skin. At a time when most movies are as expendable as fast food, here's one you won't be able to shake off anytime soon. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Metromix.com (Geoff Berkshire)
SoundtrackNet (Dan Goldwasser)
There Will Be Blood is a long film, but it's worth seeing. The acting is great, the production value solid, and unlike the other oil epic Giant, there is no romantic storyline to distract from the raw determination of Plainview's desire for the bla ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at SoundtrackNet (Dan Goldwasser)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Wunderkind director Paul Thomas Anderson has never balked from taking on big topics in films that don't exactly scream "commercially viable"; he's our most ambitious and self-assured young director, and for his fifth film, he chose nothing less than the ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
âNo movie this year was more rooted in the American soil than this powerful character study and origin story.â Thatâs what I wrote a couple of weeks ago when I had space for just a few words to explain why There Will Be Blood earned the top slot on ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
DVD Talk (Randy Miller III)
DVD Talk (Randy Miller III)
DVD Clinic (Jason Adams)
Sacramento News & Review (Jonathan Kiefer)
A self-styled maverick of major ambition and, until now, minor films, [director P.T.] Anderson has achieved a bombastic breakthrough with There Will Be Blood. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Sacramento News & Review (Jonathan Kiefer)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Elyusha Vafaeisefat)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Loosely inspired by the Upton Sinclair novel, "Oil!", in addition to the life and times of oil tycoon Edward Doheny, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia) returns with another masterwork of sorts with There Will Be Bl ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Cinematical (Scott Weinberg)
It's more than a "departure" for director Paul Thomas Anderson; it's a monumental display of "evolution" that'll wow the established fans and impress a helluva lot more new ones. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Cinematical (Scott Weinberg)
Denton Record Chronicle (TX) (Boo Allen)
A remarkable epic distinguished further by Day-Lewis' performance. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Denton Record Chronicle (TX) (Boo Allen)
Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
There Will Be Blood , the joint venture between actor Daniel Day-Lewis and director Paul Thomas Anderson, might be the most incendiary combination since the Molotov cocktail. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
Eye for Film ("Chris")
At a time when oil in movies is usually about modern day strife â Syriana, Total Denial, A Crude Awakening â cinemagoers are maybe ready for a good old fashioned epic about the pioneering days of the industry.
There Will Be Blood follows Daniel ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Eye for Film ("Chris")
Empire Movies (Liam Cullin)
CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)
Too real to keep popcorn audiences interested, but for more patient moviegoers Daniel Day-Lewis's hypnotic performance makes it a must see. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)
IGN Movies (Todd Gilchrist)
There Will Be Blood is a brilliant film, a real, important work in a world that looks at art as a four-letter word, and another entry in a filmography that stands among the most important -- and yes, distinctive -- in modern movies. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at IGN Movies (Todd Gilchrist)
FilmJudge (David Mercier)
Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) is a gifted oil prospector with a reputation for being ruthless, efficient and very good at what he does. He is approached by Paul Sunday (Dano), and told there is oil in the ground near his family's ranch in Little Boston, ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at FilmJudge (David Mercier)
Eye for Film (Angus Wolfe Murray)
The most talked about movie amongst the late arrivals at The Award Ceremonies Ball, 2008, doesnât sit comfortably with a recognisable label. Not unlike Citizen Kane, you might think.
Think again.
Copy picture
Ostensibly it is concerned with the ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Eye for Film (Angus Wolfe Murray)
Maxim (Pete Hammond)
A masterpiece from Paul Thomas Anderson. You won't be able to shake it off. Daniel Day Lewis delivers a chilling portrait of greed. He can be charming, cunning, terrifying and pathetic -- sometimes all at once. This is a landmark performance. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Maxim (Pete Hammond)
The Nation (Stuart Klawans)
There Will Be Blood, by contrast, is flamboyant rather than immaculate, not just well made but brilliantly and intuitively expressive; and it leaves you feeling shaken but also a little stronger. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The Nation (Stuart Klawans)
culturevulture.net, Choices for the Cognoscenti
Though talking about life, Macbeth could have been talking about Paul Thomas Anderson's new film when he described "A taleâ¦full of sound and fury signifying nothing." There Will Be Blood has the passion of an unforgettable performance and the ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at culturevulture.net, Choices for the Cognoscenti
Cinema in Focus (Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin)
What does it take to make you happy? Most people would list either family, financial security, a job that brings fulfillment, or love. âThere Will Be Blood,â reminds us that we can pay a steep price if we are trying to achieve a self-centered happin ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Cinema in Focus (Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin)
Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Some people say that oil is proof of the existence of an intelligent being. Just think of its uses. Oil propels cars and planes. Itâs used to make compact disks, pain relievers and other medicines, plastic bottles, Saran Wrap, canned goods, plant ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Hollywood Snitch (Rilio Mastrantonio)
Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a powerful performance in a fascinating movie centering around greed, power, and religion. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Hollywood Snitch (Rilio Mastrantonio)
Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Jenny Jediny)
There Will Be Blood is as frightening as it is engrossing; with a single viewing I felt a bit shell-shocked, if giddy, while the second was far easier to absorb, and to take note of the smaller details that remain in my mind like a well-written novel. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Jenny Jediny)
<<dnb@dca.net>>
Drilling for oil at the turn of the last century was a dirty business and it took a dirty man to do it. Daniel Plainview was such a man: prospector, single father, oilman, entrepreneur, adventurer, heathen, sociopath, and sinner.
With "There Will Be ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at <<dnb@dca.net>>
Film Monthly (Del Harvey)
Seeping out of the ground like some primordial ooze, dark and thick and fluid, a priceless poison. It's pure crude oil, and what Daniel Plainview sees in it is nothing less than the futureâhis and a whole nation's, reflected in the shiny slick that spew ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Film Monthly (Del Harvey)
Film e Dvd
Dopo una serie di opere corali alla Altman (âBoogie nightsâ, âMagnoliaâ), il regista e sceneggiatore Paul Thomas Anderson torna dietro la macchina da presa con il film âIl petroliereâ, vincitore di due premi Oscar (miglior attore e miglior fot ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Film e Dvd
Santa Fe Reporter
Yet this frenzy is balanced against Andersonâs clearest distillation of his theme of family. The blood of the title is a flexible symbol, used to reference the corporate thirst for oil, impending violence and even the Blood of the Lamb. But most of all ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Santa Fe Reporter
BBC Films
Anderson starts as he means to go on with a daring opening sequence that charts Day-Lewis's early stabs at silver mining entirely without words - an admirably economical device that shows prospecting to be a dirty, dangerous and frequently deadly ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at BBC Films
Paul Thomas Anderson has been striving to make a masterpiece ever since he first exploded onto the American movie scene 10 years ago with his insanely ambitious second feature, Boogie Nights. Replete with showy camera moves and performance tics (borrowed ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at
Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
The small story fills the screen with confidence and unwinds with academy award winning grace, then ends disappointingly.
Daniel Day-Lewis is flat out one of the greatest actors of our time. He's magnificent in "There Will Be Blood," although, I think ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
The voice of the oil man sounds made of oil, gristle and syrup. It is deep and reassuring, absolutely sure of itself, and curiously fraudulent. No man who sounds this forthright can be other than a liar. His name is Daniel Plainview, and he must have give ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Twitch (Peter Martin)
It's definitely not perfect, but it is sweeping and majestic as it moves down a lonely, powerful path. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Twitch (Peter Martin)
Hollywood Reporter (John DeFore)
Daniel Day-Lewis stuns in Paul Thomas Anderson's saga of a soul-dead oil man. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Hollywood Reporter (John DeFore)
CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Andrea Chirichelli)
California, inizi del '900: un cercatore d'oro, Daniel Plainview, si rende improvvisamente conto che il futuro è del petrolio e inizia la sua carriera in quel ramo. Acquistata con l'inganno per poche migliaia di dollari una proprietà ubicata proprio ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Andrea Chirichelli)
Le Devoir, Montréal (Odile Tremblay)
There Will Be Blood est un grand film, certainement la meilleure production américaine de l'année, déjà couronné par l'association des critiques américains. On s'étonnerait fort que Daniel Day-Lewis, qui y incarne le rôle principal du prospecteur ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Le Devoir, Montréal (Odile Tremblay)
Detroit News (Adam Graham)
A maddening epic with a towering, bravura performance from star Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood will rattle your brain for weeks, even months after you see it. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Detroit News (Adam Graham)
KyleSmithOnline.com (Kyle Smith)
A macabre joke: suppose Capitalism and Evangelism climbed down an inky black hole together? Which one would emerge? ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at KyleSmithOnline.com (Kyle Smith)
Cinema Crazed (Felix Vasquez Jr.)
Anderson's drama is a beautiful combination of incredible cinematography, plays on morals and a stern statement about oil and the search for the American dream... ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Cinema Crazed (Felix Vasquez Jr.)
Ruthless Reviews
The problem with so-called epoch-defining masterpieces is that with rare exceptions, they are often neither, settling instead for well-crafted epics that satisfy in spite of the hype. Paul Thomas Andersonâs There Will Be Blood, a film that carries a ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Ruthless Reviews
Seattle Times (Mark Rahner)
Up to now, director Paul Thomas Anderson's work has diminished with each film since Boogie Nights, but Blood is a maturation and reinvention. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Seattle Times (Mark Rahner)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
The best things about Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood are not elements that will build large audiences. This is a film about character development/disintegration and a comprehensive look at the early days of the oil industry. The more the film ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
MTV (Kurt Loder)
The movie has problems, but Daniel Day-Lewis' seismic performance is reason enough to see it. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at MTV (Kurt Loder)
Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Paul Thomas Anderson's overlong Upton Sinclair adaptation is nearly worth seeing solely for Daniel Day-Lewis's unforgettable performance. Nearly. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Marred ever-so-slightly by a bizarre ending, this is still a picture that challenges the audience, encourages them to explore the elements within it, and rewards them for being open to possibilities. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
"THERE Will Be Blood," the joint venture between actor Daniel Day-Lewis and director Paul Thomas Anderson, might be the most incendiary combination since the Molotov cocktail. Though it can be over the top and excessive, this morality play set in the ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
The best movie performance so far this century? No contest. There's Daniel Day-Lewis' awe-inspiring turn as a greedy oilman in "There Will Be Blood , and there is everyone else. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
Blood does not release its grip on the audience until its last, bizarrely crazy minutes. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
Preview Family Movie Review
Though award givers will be paying tribute to its elaborate storytelling, both from an artistic and technical perspective, once again we are presented an Oscar hopeful determined to reflect the sourest notes of human behavior. There are two main ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Preview Family Movie Review
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Ambitious, deeply flawed and studded with sequences that achieve pure, majestic greatness. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
A force beyond categories. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
The New York Sun (Nicolas Rapold)
Plainview: The name could belong to a cookie-cutter 1950s suburb. But Daniel Plainview, the rapacious, calculating wildcatter of Paul Thomas Anderson's excellent "There Will Be Blood," which hits New York Theaters on December 26, rises from an earlier, ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The New York Sun (Nicolas Rapold)
Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
If there's any moviemaker who knows the California Dream was always a devil's bargain, it's Paul Thomas Anderson. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
...almost as if Terrence Malick had directed Citizen Kane . ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)
Anderson's most mature and ambitious film yet...[though his] growth as a filmmaker remains hindered by an obsession with effect and a disinterest in depth. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)
Houston Chronicle (Amy Biancolli)
As an incurable romantic, I hold out hope that Anderson's flawed but phenomenal feat here marks the start of a new, mature stage in a long career. He has genius in him. So does the movie -- before its ending. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Houston Chronicle (Amy Biancolli)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
The voice of the oil man sounds made of oil, gristle and syrup. It is deep and reassuring, absolutely sure of itself, and curiously fraudulent. No man who sounds this forthright can be other than a liar. His name is Daniel Plainview, and he must have give ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
Another phenomenal performance from Daniel Day-Lewis, who balances his character's purpose as symbol and depth as an individual. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
<dnb@dca.net>
Drilling for oil at the turn of the last century was a dirty
business and it took a dirty man to do it. Daniel Plainview was such a
man: prospector, single father, oilman, entrepreneur, adventurer,
heathen, sociopath, and sinner.
With "There ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at <dnb@dca.net>
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (Gina Carbone)
The best film of 2007 starts with quiet drilling in the desert and ends decades later with a violent showdown in a bowling alley. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (Gina Carbone)
Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
How does Daniel Day-Lewis do it? If I were forced to pick the most talented working actor in the Movie Industry today, he might just be the man. And yet, still, much of Day-Lewisâ career is surrounded by mystery: he only works about once every three ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Paul Thomas Anderson's overlong Upton Sinclair adaptation is nearly worth seeing solely for Daniel Day-Lewis's unforgettable performance. Nearly. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
ReelzChannel.com (Brent Simon)
Paul Thomas Anderson's fascinating fifth feature film is a sprawling, period piece character study%u2026 and an elongated put-on. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at ReelzChannel.com (Brent Simon)
Daniel Plainview (played by Daniel Day-Lewis) is a silver prospector in 1898 who repeatedly nearly kills himself from his own poor planning and taking of risks. He somehow manages to survive his own incompetence, and in the process ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at
Daniel Plainview (played by Daniel Day-Lewis) is a silver prospector in 1898 who repeatedly nearly kills himself from his own poor planning and taking of risks. He somehow manages to survive his own incompetence, and in the process discovers oil in the ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at
Movies into Film.com (N.P. Thompson)
I caught the latest Paul Thomas Anderson debacle at a press screening on November 28, well before the critical drum circle had risen to its current âBurning Manâ pitch. In the clear light of late autumn drizzle, There Will Be Blood appeared to be no m ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Movies into Film.com (N.P. Thompson)
Reel.com
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 ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Reel.com
Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
A great brooding thundercloud of a movie, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on a gust of critical acclaim, lowering over a landscape of barren mesas and hot, scrubby hills.
Anderson's epic, no less than his career, ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" is an austere folly, a picture so ambitious, so filled with filmmaking, that its very scale almost obscures its blankness. The source for Anderson's fifth picture is Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel "Oil!" which ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
Frank's Reel Reviews
A couple of weeks ago I was over a friend's house, and was admiring a poster on his wall featuring Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady from the 1950's beat generation. The two men were with their arms around each other's shoulders. My friend came over to me ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Frank's Reel Reviews
Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer)
I don't remember the last time a film gave me nightmares; it might have been when I was eight and saw Snow White's wicked witch try to poison her. But "There Will Be Blood" gave me the closest thing to a nightmare that I've had in quite a while. Daniel ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer)
KYW Newsradio (Bill Wine)
Maybe itâs true that no man is an island, and maybe it's not. Either way, this guy comes the closest, saying, in There Will Be Blood, "I look at people and see nothing worth liking." ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at KYW Newsradio (Bill Wine)
Movie City News (David Poland)
Defies Fresh/Rotten designation by being SO good and SO bad all in one very confused act of inspiration. Cineastes must go to wallow in it. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Movie City News (David Poland)
Laramie Movie Scope (Patrick Ivers)
Director/screenwriter Paul Thomas Anderson's film adaptation from Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" (originally based on the Teapot Dome scandal during the Harding administration) is dedicated to Robert Altman. Of the movies I've seen, the one that comes ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Patrick Ivers)
critic.de (Sascha Keilholz)
Iâm an Oil-Manâ, behauptet Daniel Plainview von sich. Was ihn von den profitsüchtigen Geschäftemachern der Industrie unterscheiden soll, die wie Touristen per Zug von Ort zu Ort reisen, um Verträge aufzusetzen. Plainview wird selbst Teil der ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at critic.de (Sascha Keilholz)
New York Press (Armond White)
âNo!â is the first word spoken in There Will Be Blood, and it should be the last said in response to Paul Thomas Andersonâs latest pretend epic. That obstinate âNo!â is Daniel Plainviewâs refusal to accept the fate awaiting him when he falls o ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at New York Press (Armond White)
CineScene.com (Chris Dashiell)
Thomas Andersonâs adaptation of a 1927 book by Upton Sinclair, contains a dense novelistic actuality under its deceptively bare surface. In this tale of a scrappy oil prospector and his journey to wealth, Anderson has himself gathered and quarried a mas ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at CineScene.com (Chris Dashiell)
The Cinema Source (Michael M. Dance)
There Will Be Blood is a one-of-a-kind movie, on one level a Citizen Kane-esque story about a miserable man corrupted by ambition, on another level a clash of business versus faith, and on quite another level, a horror movie. At the center of it all is ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at The Cinema Source (Michael M. Dance)
Video Reviews with Joan Ellis
âThere Will Be Blood.â You bet there will be â metaphorical, emotional, and actual blood. The movie builds relentlessly on its own unpleasantness until we want to scream, or at the very least, to strangle Daniel Day Lewis. This fine actor, with meas ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Video Reviews with Joan Ellis
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)
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)
Bullz-Eye.com
M
isery may love company, but it loves Oscars even more, and Paul Thomas Andersonâs âThere Will Be Bloodâ is the perfect example. A surefire candidate for several of the yearâs major awards, the film doesnât feature a single uplifting moment ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Bullz-Eye.com
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
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)
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)
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)
Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
Bangitout.com (Jordan Hiller)
Interesting, original, quality work. ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Bangitout.com (Jordan Hiller)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
âThere Will Be Blood,â Paul Thomas Andersonâs 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)
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)
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)
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 minutiaeâcrammed 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)
Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies
A âChinatownâ for the oil fields minus the incest, âThere Will Be Bloodâ harkens to a time when goddamn movie studios made big-ass, on-location, gaudy MOVIES, for the love of God! That people LOVED for Christâs sake! With gorgeous SETS and ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies
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)
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)
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)
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 Andersonâs 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
ShowBizCafe.com (Ted Faraone)
âThere Will Be Bloodâ está dedicado al difunto cineasta Robert Altman. Pero el director de âM*A*S*Hâ merece mejor que esta épica sin ...read the complete There Will Be Blood movie review at ShowBizCafe.com (Ted Faraone)
from $5.49
(17 sellers)
User Reviews
User Comments
del.icio.us
Digg
StumbleUpon
Yahoo! My Web
Facebook
Google Bookmarks
ma.gnolia
Newsvine
reddit
Windows Live
