There Will Be Blood Critic Reviews

Daniel Day-Lewis stuns in Paul Thomas Anderson's saga of a soul-dead oil man.Read the full review

A searing, apocalyptic and finally breathtaking drama.Read the full review

For a story that's all about the harnessing of fateful chthonic forces, Paul Thomas Anderson has dug deeper than ever before, and struck black gold.Read the full review

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 full review

In terms of excitement, imagination and rule-busting experimentation, it's a gusher.Read the full review

Boldly and magnificently strange, There Will Be Blood marks a significant departure in the work of Paul Thomas Anderson.Read the full review

There Will Be Blood" is anti-state of the art. It's the work of an analog filmmaker railing against an increasingly digitized world. In that sense, the movie is idiosyncratic, too: vintage visionary stuff.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Daniel Day-Lewis's portrayal is not just the performance of the year -- there will be injustice if he doesn't win an Oscar -- but a creation of awesome proportions.Read the full review