There Will Be Blood Critic Reviews

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

A searingly intense and artful tale that grabs hold of the viewer from its jarring and wordless opening scenes and doesn't let go.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

Unfortunately, the film's final third is poorly focused and, while there is a clear conclusion, it feels strangely hollow.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

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

It's important to remember that Sinclair was as much a committed socialist as a novelist, someone who probably wrote for political purpose more than for dramatic effect. So while Day-Lewis' gorgeous acting largely disguises it, the people in "Blood" tend to be schematic and the film as a whole has a weakness for the didactic.Read the full review

For bleakness, the movie can't be beat -- nor for brilliance.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