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2008
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There Will Be Blood
Positive Reviews
82
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
4.3
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4.5
It is here that the movie stakes itself incontrovertibly in the American soil.
Austin Chronicle
4.4
There Will Be Blood is the kind of film that is easily called great.I am not sure of its greatness.
Rogerebert
5.0
Coen brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson drinks YOUR milkshake! This is the best film of 2007. Hands down.
Cinema Blend
4.0
There Will Be Bloods title is more of a promise than a descriptor.
Cinema Blend
4.4
Plainview is a misanthrope whose stated goal is to earn enough money so I can get away from everyone.
Ny Daily News
4.4
And There Will Be Blood is just a few barrels short of being a masterpiece.
Philly
3.8
Where Sinclairs novel is a sprawling mix of politics, class consciousness, social satire and family dysfunction for all Sinclairs muckraking credentia ..
Tv Guide
3.8
Its also possible that the films failings are merely part of its oversized, insane charm, like the folly films that Pauline Kael described years ago.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.8
Another phenomenal performance from Daniel Day Lewis, who balances his characters purpose as symbol and depth as an individual.
Mark Reviews Movies
4.5
Daniel Day Lewis performance is the best of 2007, a towering portrayal of searing hatred.
Lariat
4.2
He understands the technical elements of filmmaking as well as the storytelling elements.
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
It is what this throbbing film needs.What speaks most truly of our self loathing national disposition in There Will Be Blood, it turns out, is its ton ..
News Review
5.0
Its the very definition of character study, and if you should make the decision not to care about the lives of its characters early on, you are going ..
News Review
4.5
Essentially this is an examination of the Christian proverb: What good is it if you gain the whole world but lose your soul
Shadows On The Wall
5.0
Powerful, brilliantly directed and thoroughly gripping drama with an Oscar nominated performance by Daniel Day Lewis that is nothing short of sensatio ..
View London
4.2
There Will Be Blood sets itself up as nothing less than a movie about America and its false prophets and about the greed that defaces glory.
Cs Monitor
4.0
But it is also a flawed, and at times distasteful, piece that will turn off as many viewers as it turns on.Is it art
Film Journal
4.5
Andersons is a dark and strange film.Nothing about it is quite normalfrom its status as a miniature epic to its deliberately overbearing Bartok esque ..
Mountain X
4.0
Anderson, an indie director with a streak of intriguing art film hits to his credit (Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love) proves to have a real ..
Npr
4.2
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Emanuellevy
5.0
Much ballyhoo will be made about the movies ending, but it made perfect sense to me.
Reel Talk Reviews
4.5
For a long, slow movie, it speeds.For a story set in the fabled bad old days past, its got the terrors of modernity in its DNA.
Ew
4.5
Andersons drama is a beautiful combination of incredible cinematography, plays on morals and a stern statement about oil and the search for the Americ ..
Cinema Crazed
5.0
Its so broad, so shamelessly over the top, that the movie shifts from stark Oedipal drama to something like Grand Guignol.
Slate
5.0
Like much of this film, its discomfiting at best, but impossible to tear your eyes away from.Uncompromising, intelligent and searing cinema.
Empire
5.0
This is the best movie hes ever made, and if youre not a huge fan of his, then that might not be enough praise.Its one of the best movies anyones made ..
Movies
3.1
Instead of doing miniatures, Anderson is attempting work on an epic scale.
Sf Gate
4.0
As lofty as its themes are, though, There Will Be Blood finally works best as a thrilling vehicle for its stars fiery majesty and remarkable ability t ..
Bbc
4.5
And when it comes it will more than reward whatever patience and impatience you have invested in this unique experience, one of the most wholly origin ..
Time
5.0
Its sanguinary title notwithstanding, Andersons visionary, often startling take on the classic western actually features relatively little of the subs ..
Washington Post
2.5
When Daniel vows to slit the throat of a Standard Oil bigwig not once, but twice, it is expected that there will be a payoff.It never comes.
The Movie Boy
3.5
It takes a talented person to make a great film, but it takes an even more talented one to know when to say enough is enough.
Bullz-Eye
4.2
Here is a man who can show genuine concern but only when it doesnt interfere with business; a man who will spout religious rhetoric as the means to an ..
Reeling Reviews
4.5
It is not there for you, for your amusement, for your entertainment.It is there for itself.
Flickfilosopher
3.8
The films final 30 minutes may fail short of delivering on the promise of the preceding two hours but, even taking into account its faults, this is ne ..
ReelViews
5.0
The highly deliberate writer director clearly values quality over quantity and he got both out of this movie an epic masterpiece in a career so young.
Hollywood
3.0
Still, this is a classic star vehicle and Day Lewis rises to its challenges.
Seattle Pi
5.0
Sandler and Watsons palpable chemistry together surely plays a key role in the films success, while Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers precisely the sort ..
Reel Film
3.5
You wont see better filmmaking than the first third of this film.
7M Pictures
4.4
Numerous reviewers have already made the connection between There Will Be Blood and Citizen Kane, another story of a great man undone by unresolved fa ..
The Star
3.8
For a good two hours, the drama is pretty riveting stuff. A seemingly hasty, rushed and ridiculous finale does end things on a particularly unsatisfyi ..
Deseret News
5.0
This is a force 10 gale of a performance from Day Lewis, muscular, visceral, venomous and restrained all at once if you can imagine that
Urban Cine File
5.0
What Day Lewis displays here is his extraordinary theatrical genius for the cinematic frame, which hes not reticent to make use of to its deepest dime ..
Varia Gate
3.1
Its too bad that high technical standards have nothing to do with making a good movie.You can give me a movie with the shoddiest production work, but ..
Three Movie Buffs
4.4
Between D Day, the sheer ambition of Paul Thomas Andersons historical epic and Robert Elswits dazzling cinematography, this is a must see movie even t ..
New York Post
5.0
A moviemakers film: particularly in the sequences of work, in which blood and sweat and sweet crude mix and no one speaks, it is pure retina searing c ..
Nz Herald
4.5
Which deserves every Oscar Day Lewis can get, just for sheer diabolical enthusiasm.
News Blaze
4.4
Despite clocking in at a patience testing 2 hours, the tortoise paced picture is nonetheless worthwhile for the latest spellbinding performance by Osc ..
News Blaze
2.5
Its as if you can feel the oil flowing under the ground, bubbling, seeking a weak patch of earth from which to spew. But, the climactic emotional equi ..
Ross Anthony
5.0
The movie and the man at its center were a marvel to watch in a classic for our time.
The Filmy Ap
3.8
Paul Thomas Andersons overlong Upton Sinclair adaptation is nearly worth seeing solely for Daniel Day Lewiss unforgettable performance. Nearly.
Big Picture Big Sound
4.0
This rich and riveting story about how oil and money corrupts and ultimately destroys is endlessly fascinating despite the seeming simplicity of the p ..
ComingSoon
5.0
has repeatedly been compared to such American cinema classics as Giant, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Citizen Kane. That may sound like an ove ..
Montreal Film Journal
5.0
What it shares with all of Andersons work is a blistering intensityand filmmaking that can make your jaw drop.
News Week
5.0
This weeks TLS September 28, 2018 A Mexican massacre, fifty years on; Brazil in purgatory; Russian reliance on intelligence services; the last days of ..
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4.4
As an incurable romantic, I hold out hope that Andersons flawed but phenomenal feat here marks the start of a new, mature stage in a long career. He h ..
Chron
4.0
It takes its sweet time and chews on its words this is simply Andersons way of making sure you soak in every second and savour every beat.As a charact ..
The Shiz Nit
5.0
This movie is epic, but not in the usual manner.It is austere; Day Lewiss Plainview is in almost every shot, and often in close up.
Film Guardian
4.5
Anderson takes the conflict to its logical conclusion in a perfectly diseased cherry of a finale, but its a wonderful thematic tease that runs through ..
Dvd Talk
3.5
The documentary This Is Not a Film chronicles acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi under house arrest as he appeals his sentence of six years in pr ..
Wsj
1.5
Danos performance is as loose and ecstatic as Day Lewis is mannered and structured.
East Bay Express
4.5
There Will Be Blood takes those lessons to ravishing, hypnotic, and equally triumphant heights.
Flip Side Archive
5.0
If youre 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.
Review Express
3.0
It may be a performance piece, but at least the characters are smart too.They dont just exist to be the performance.
Can Mag
4.5
And be forewarned: the film earns its title by the closing credits.
Stream On Demand At Home
4.5
A film of staggering ambition, epic scope and yet remarkable, subtle insight, There Will Be Blood is as defining a work as the most famous of any of t ..
Movies Ign
4.5
Its a period piece thats absolutely timeless but never loses its grip on the reality it plays out in.
Need Coffee
4.9
The practice of watching There Will Be Blood, though, is breathtaking.
Movie Martyr
5.0
There Will Be Blood certainly overreaches, yet Anderson has the talent to back up epic ambition.
Cine Passion
4.8
The tragic circumstance gives the film its emotional spine that will be crushed into dust before Plainviews self loathing and deep seeded anger brings ..
Film Critic 1963 Typepad
4.5
The best movie of Daniel Day Lewis career turns out to be in the best movie of Paul Thomas Andersons career.
Week In Rewind
4.5
Yet for all its reserves of latent allegory, There Will Be Blood is meticulous about surface detail.
Cinema Scope
3.8
Virtually the entire nation of everyone not named Orgeron or Tim Brando has to be surprised LSU is 5 0 and ranked No. 5 in the country.
2 The Advocate
4.8
But nothing could have prepared us for this: There Will Be Blood is already being hailed as a masterpiece.
Looking Closer
4.0
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Cine Rina
5.0
That Anderson can build such a towering and engaging epic around such a distasteful character is just one of the many brilliant mysteries of There Wil ..
D Cist
5.0
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4.5
Andersons film is like a vision of notes he took on a Great American Epic, ideas and angles introduced but rarely followed through.
Mubi
4.6
It is a consensus masterpiece.But theres something a little too easy about calling it a masterpiece and ticking off the myriad allusions to American ( ..
Ar Kansas Online
4.7
Let the audience leave the film with still more appreciation for the best actor of our era.
Sea Coast Online
4.4
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Djardine Blogspot
4.5
Perhaps the best barometer of Andersons astonishing success here is that he manages to invest this weighty allegory with such a wealth of character an ..
Stop Smiling Online
2.5
Blood is oil,blood is family (and family is at worst a scam and at best an Achilles heel),but blood is also blood. If nothing else, the title is a spo ..
Blog Spout
4.2
There Will Be Blood transports us to a time and place but never panders or tries to please its audience (a good movie like The Aviator comes to seem l ..
East Bay Times
3.5
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Pilot Online
4.5
The movie makes absolutely no f ing sense whatsoever. it takes almost three hours in which not to make any f ing sense and is very loud and chesty abo ..
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