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Jan 3, 2008 · A story terminating in madness. Daniel Day Lewis is widely expected to win an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the ruthless oil tycoon Daniel Plainview in the epic There Will Be Blood, which opens in theaters today. By Roger Ebert.
Widely touted as a masterpiece, this sparse and sprawling epic about the underhanded "heroes" of capitalism boasts incredible performances by leads Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano, and is director...
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Dec 26, 2007 · “There Will Be Blood,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to hell.
Histrionic, fatally confused and socially evasive, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood is all the worse for its touching upon important subjects, oil and religion in American life. Full...
Feb 4, 2008 · Oscar glory beckons for Daniel Day-Lewis, at his imperious, explosive best as turn-of-the-century oilman Daniel Plainview in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood.
Sep 30, 2007 · ‘There Will Be Blood’: Film Review. Daniel Day-Lewis stuns in Paul Thomas Anderson's saga of a soul-dead oil man.
Dec 26, 2007 · 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.
Excellent, gutsy filmmaking. Leofwine_draca 13 March 2012. This is a compelling family drama charting one man's rise and fall as he ruthless exploits oil in the American west. It has everything you could want from a great Hollywood movie: subtlety, excellent acting, a thoughtful and intelligent script and quite wonderful cinematography.
Jan 2, 2008 · There Will Be Blood Review. Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) is a silver prospector-turned-oil man, working his way from a single-man dig to mini-mogul status. On a tip from Paul Sunday (Dano),...
Dec 12, 2007 · Another film-school-in-a-box by Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood is a triumph of vivid, overly assertive aesthetic minutiae—crammed to its oil-slicked rafters with highly stylized forms of art direction, cinematography, performance, dialogue, and music. All that’s missing from it is a sense of humanity.
