Film · 2007 · Drama
There Will Be Blood
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
2007
★ 9.4 editorial score
Day-Lewis builds an American monster out of oil and resentment, and Jonny Greenwood's score scrapes at the nerves for two and a half hours without once letting up.
“Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic American nightmare arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to Hell. Set against the backdrop of the Southern California oil boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, it tells a story of greed and envy of biblical proportions — reverberating with Old Testament sound and fury and New Testament evangelicalism — which Mr. Anderson has mined from Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel "Oil!"”
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