There Will Be Blood Reviews
Flix Capacitor
Challenging and far from an easy watch, even those who do respond might take a couple of viewings to fully realise just how good it is, but there's little doubt that it's a modern masterpiece.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
TheShiznit.co.uk
As a character study, There Will Be Blood is unsurpassed. Just don't expect to strike oil straight away.
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| Original Score: 4/5
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DCist
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.
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| Original Score: 10/10
UGO
In a way, there's not a step you haven't seen in classics going as far back as Citizen Kane. Still, there are enough oddities in the details to keep you full of questions.
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| Original Score: A-
Guardian [UK]
This is a film by Paul Thomas Anderson that has overshot the runway of movie modernity with something thrillingly, dangerously new.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Bullz-Eye.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
This sometimes magnificent, decidedly strange film is a portrait of a terrible, rapacious man.
Times [UK]
It's a biblical parable about America's failure to square religion and greed. But most of all it is a marvellously entertaining soap: a sort Dickens does Dallas, without the sex or swimming pools.
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| Original Score: 5/5
One of the most wholly original American movies ever made.
There Will Be Blood establishes itself as a film of Darwinian ferocity, a stark and pitiless parable of American capitalism.
The Scorecard Review
If Day-Lewis isn't front and center, the film drags with themes such as oil vs. religion, and greed is always around...
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| Original Score: 7/10
Sin Magazine
Anderson has truly made an old fashioned, great American movie. Not to be missed!!!
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4
Apollo Guide
One helluva film; the best in Anderson's young career.
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| Original Score: 87/100
Movie Metropolis
As a film about one man's obsessive egomania, There Will Be Blood does its job.
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| Original Score: 7/10
WJFK-FM (CBS Radio)
I just sat there in awe the entire two hours and thirty minutes of the film, just completely stunned as to what I was seeing.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Watertown Daily Times
... when we look back at "There Will Be Blood" decades from now, we will probably be saying the sprawling epic about oil, family, faith, greed and deception is Anderson's crowning achievement. And that's saying a lot.
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| Original Score: 5/5
