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There Will Be Blood

2007

Paul Thomas Anderson

Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds ...

7.3

45,292

Drama Year 1902. When Daniel Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads there with his son, H.W., to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centers around the HOLY ROLLER church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday, Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The film is above all a consummate work of art, one that transcends the historically fraught context of its making, and its pleasures are unapologetically aesthetic. It reveals, excites, disturbs, provokes, but the window it opens is to human consciousness itself."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] hits with hurricane force. Lovers of formula and sugarcoating will hate it. Screw them. In terms of excitement, imagination and rule-busting experimentation, it’s a gusher (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Watching the movie is like viewing a natural disaster that you cannot turn away from. By that I do not mean that the movie is bad, any more than it is good. It is a force beyond categories (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"As long as money retains the power to poison men's souls, Anderson's uncompromising masterpiece will continue to resonate"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Boldly and magnificently strange (...) On a craft and technical level, the film is of the highest quality"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"Anderson challenges audience expectations, makes unexpected and bizarre choices - sometimes for the sake of making them - and almost brings off a picture worthy of his grandiose ambition (...) [The finish] is close enough to rob 'There Will Be Blood' of any impact"	NEU
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"'There Will Be Blood' is ferocious, and it will be championed and attacked with an equal ferocity. When the dust settles, we may look back on it as some kind of obsessed classic."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] is lively as bombastic period storytelling but limited as allegory"	NEU
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"'There Will Be Blood' looks and, especially, sounds like no movie you’ve seen before (...) Paul Thomas Anderson has dug deeper than ever before, and struck black gold."	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"A towering new American epic and instant modern classic (...) For bleakness, the movie can’t be beat — nor for brilliance."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is so potent and so strange that it almost seems to have been delivered here from another planet (...) A dark, uncompromising film, thrillingly original and distinctive, with a visionary passion (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"It fertilises every scene with moments - of drama, character, acting, camerawork, music - that make you want to swoon, laugh, cry out with shock."	POS
United Kingdom	Helen O'Hara Empire	"Uncompromising, intelligent and searing cinema. Along with 'The Assassination Of Jesse James'... and 'No Country For Old Men', this is the best batch of Western-set dramas in decades. John Huston would have been proud (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Neil Smith BBC	"[It] works best as a thrilling vehicle for its star's fiery majesty and remarkable ability to disappear inside every role he takes on (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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