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OFCS Rating: 91% Fresh |
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| "qualities normally regarded as the bedrock of the American Dream - rugged individualism, rampant entrepreneurship and rags-to-riches mobility - are flipped over to expose a dark undercurrent of monomaniacal male solipsism." |
| musicOMH.com |
| Anton Bitel |
4.5/5 | "When you remove the turn of the century pretext, There Will Be Blood is really nothing more than a battle between two ancient religions - Christianity and Capitalism." |
| PopMatters |
| Bill Gibron |
| "Coen brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson drinks YOUR milkshake! This is the best film of 2007. Hands down." |
| CinemaBlend.com |
| Brian Holcomb |
A | "It's almost needless to write that Daniel Day-Lewis tears into the role with hurricane-like authority. This is not acting, folks, it's a demonic possession." |
| DVDTalk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
5/5 | "A bloody-fanged, no-prisoners take on Manifest Destiny greed ... In short: an all-American tale." |
| ToxicUniverse.com |
| Chris Barsanti |
A+ | "Anachronistic and phantasmagoric, America's early race for oil is brought into personal terms that resonate with the withering decay of greed." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "Land, oil, blood. There will be lots of all in Paul Thomas Anderson's stunning new movie." |
| Nitrate Online |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
5/5 | "[Daniel] Day-Lewis plays Plainview as a man whose heart is pitch black but still beats." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Dan Lybarger |
5/5 | "More than just the best film of the year, Blood is one of cinema's grandest character studies." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
3/4 | "Daniel Day-Lewis's magnificent, sanguine performance as oilman Daniel Plainview is just one of many reasons to catch P.T. Anderson's latest feature." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
4/4 | "...as compelling and flat-out exhilarating as anything within the director's virtually flawless body of work." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
A | "It delivers without question what it promised in its title." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2/4 | "If Day-Lewis' Oscar-bound turn is one of the strongest of the year, it only calls more attention to the weaknesses around him." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
2/4 | "Crammed to its oil-slicked rafters with highly stylized forms of art direction, cinematography, performance, dialogue, and music. All that's missing from it is a sense of humanity." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
5/5 | "Una obra mayor sobre codicia y religión y el retrato de una personalidad oscura y fascinante, compuesta con maestría por Daniel Day-Lewis. Confirma la madurez de Paul Thomas Anderson, el notable director de Boogie Nights y Magnolia." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
A- | "It's a refreshing change to see Daniel Day-Lewis get wild and woolly as Plainview, whose fearsomeness and villainy are electrifying." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3.5/4 | "Anderson's drama is a beautiful combination of incredible cinematography, plays on morals and a stern statement about oil and the search for the American dream..." |
| Cinema Crazed |
| Felix Vasquez Jr. |
A- | "[An] engrossing epic of misanthropy, capitalist monomania and religious quackery...at once savagely bleak from an emotional perspective and incredibly beautiful visually." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
1/5 | "An excruciatingly long one-note film, filled with sickening and senseless violence, about a misanthropic oil man and an ego-filled minister." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
A | "Though set around the turn of the 20th Century, There Will Be Blood is, in its pitting of capitalism against revivalism, conspicuously more about the state of the union at the turn of the 21st." |
| Cinepinion |
| Henry Stewart |
3/4 | "An arresting, fascinating, and sometimes disturbing motion picture experience." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
4/4 | "Visceral, volatile and epic." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
10/10 | "No lesson needs to be learned here, but observations can and should be noted because we're so rarely fed such coldly realistic characters." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Jeffrey Chen |
97/100 | "Here is a film that makes its enormous intentions abundantly clear, then follows up on them magnificently, resulting in what seems destined to become a bona fide American classic." |
| MovieMartyr.com |
| Jeremy Heilman |
3/4 | "Paul Thomas Anderson's overlong Upton Sinclair adaptation is nearly worth seeing solely for Daniel Day-Lewis's unforgettable performance. Nearly." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
9/10 | "Simultaneously exhilarating and disturbing while leading me to a place I wasn't sure I wanted to go." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
| "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" |
| Film.com |
| Jonathan F. Richards |
2.5/4 | "Interesting, original, quality work." |
| Bangitout.com |
| Jordan Hiller |
5/5 | "ena stoiheiotiko portraito tis skoteinis pleyras tis kynigioy tis epityhias, poy oso gigantonetai, metatrepetai sto teras tis aplistias, toso dynato poy katabrohthizei akomi kai toys pneymatikoys igetes poy tha eprepe na to katapolemisoyn" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
4/5 | "There has been plenty of critical pants-wetting about Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, and I am an Anderson admirer to be sure %u2013 but beyond an acting nomination for Daniel Day Lewis, I just can't get on that train." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
3.5/5 | "Together [Day-Lewis and Dano] produce the year's most mercurial moments." |
| Film-Forward.com |
| Kent Turner |
3.5/5 | "No one is the perfect, untouchable moralist... This is, in fact, the strongest truth behind the movie" |
| 7M Pictures |
| Kevin Carr |
4/4 | "[Blood] has repeatedly been compared to such American cinema classics as Giant, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Citizen Kane. That may sound like an oversell but believe me, it is that good and then some." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
A- | "Everything about this production is bold from Jack Fisk's stark period production design to the strikingly discordant score by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. And then there is the towering performance by the unparalleled Daniel Day-Lewis..." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
3/4 | "Ambitious, deeply flawed and studded with sequences that achieve pure, majestic greatness." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
3/4 | "Another phenomenal performance from Daniel Day-Lewis, who balances his character's purpose as symbol and depth as an individual." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
A+ | "There Will Be Blood is a spectacular achievement that, at this early date, seems worthy to be mentioned alongside cinema's avowed masterpieces." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
7/10 | "Though it is very different from the Upton Sinclair novel this is a film with the complexity of literature. THERE WILL BE BLOOD is an intelligent if not entirely pleasant experience to watch." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
| "It feels like it has reinvented cinema. It feels like nothing you've ever seen before." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
5/5 | "It's like a version of Citizen Kane that Stanley Kubrick might have directed. But the film has enough to lay its own influence in the minds of future filmmakers to come." |
| Bronsonfive |
| Michael Ferraro |
4.5/5 | "A shockingly assured directorial vision." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
3.5/4 | "Marred ever-so-slightly by a bizarre ending, this is still a picture that challenges the audience, encourages them to explore the elements within it, and rewards them for being open to possibilities." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
4/4 | "Paul Thomas Anderson's loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! finds the director exhibiting newfound maturity and restraint without sacrificing any measure of artistry." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
5/5 | "Anderson volta a exibir, em Sangue Negro, seu talento para o simbolismo e para opções narrativas intrigantes." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
5/5 | "A true American epic in every sense of the word -- the kind of film that people will be analyzing and admiring for as long as people will continue to do such things." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Peter Sobczynski |
4.5/5 | "This operatic drama rivets us to the seat from the wordless opening reel and never lets us go." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
5/5 | "Whatever else it is or isn't, There Will Be Blood is an original, and a major, confident step forward." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
A | "An Old Testament bellow of ferocity and pain that seduces us on so many levels you'd swear you could see the fourth wall tumbling down around our ears." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
A | "Daniel Day-Lewis' performance is the best of 2007, a towering portrayal of searing hatred." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
| "The visuals, the pacing, an all-time great performance and a timely theme add up to make There Will Be Blood one of the most memorable films I have seen." |
| Movie Views |
| Ryan Cracknell |
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OFCS Rating: 91% Fresh |
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