For bleakness, the movie can't be beat -- nor for brilliance.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
One of the most wholly original American movies ever made.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
This is truly a work of symphonic aspirations and masterful execution.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
A searing, apocalyptic and finally breathtaking drama.Read Full Review »
100
NewsWeek: David Ansen
There Will Be Blood is ferocious, and it will be championed and attacked with an equal ferocity. When the dust settles, we may look back on it as some kind of obsessed classic.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
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 Full Review »
100
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
In terms of excitement, imagination and rule-busting experimentation, it's a gusher.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
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 Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
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 Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
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 Full Review »
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