There Will Be Blood
A movie centered on family, greed, religion and oil center around a turn-of-the-century Texas prospector Daniel Plainview and son HW.
16 April 1981, Pasadena, Texas, USA
12 September 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
10 November 1962, Fontana, California, USA
19 June 1984, New York City, New York, USA
6 March 1996, Fort Davis, Texas, USA
9 February 1953, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
15 November 1963, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 February 1961, San Francisco, California, USA
10 June 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
September 30, 2014
Perhaps the best barometer of Anderson's astonishing success here is that he manages to invest this weighty allegory with such a wealth of character and nuance.
October 18, 2008
One of the most wholly original American movies ever made.
January 18, 2008
Someday, we're probably going to look back at There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic about greed, lies, manipulation and insanity, and call it his masterpiece.
October 14, 2012
As a character study, There Will Be Blood is unsurpassed. Just don't expect to strike oil straight away.
April 21, 2017
... reworks the American entrepreneurial success story as an elemental frontier myth, roughly hewn out of the landscape that is remade in its wake.
October 18, 2008
This sometimes magnificent, decidedly strange film is a portrait of a terrible, rapacious man.
September 18, 2008
There Will Be Blood establishes itself as a film of Darwinian ferocity, a stark and pitiless parable of American capitalism.
September 16, 2015
It is the work of masters perfecting their craft, setting off together towards a horizon of shining prowess to discover, quite literally, the pinnacle of their cinematic potential.
June 12, 2010
Anderson's vision is uncompromising and razor sharp. Nothing in his first four features quite prepares us for the precision and vicious wit displayed here.
January 29, 2008
The moments that linger long after you've left the theater and forgotten how damned tedious the whole thing was are with Paul Dano's smug, moon-faced preacher
April 28, 2011
Who suggested the John Huston accent? We keep expecting Daniel Plainview to molest a young niece or something.
February 05, 2008
Daniel Day-Lewis bestrides the narrow world like a colossus as Daniel Plainview, a turn-of-the-last-century prospector for gold and silver who stumbles upon oil in rural California and goes after it with the ferocity, focus, and ethical sensitivity of a f
