Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
One of the most wholly original American movies ever made.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
18 Oct 2008
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This sometimes magnificent, decidedly strange film is a portrait of a terrible, rapacious man.
– Bob Mondello,
NPR.org,
18 Oct 2008
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There Will Be Blood establishes itself as a film of Darwinian ferocity, a stark and pitiless parable of American capitalism.
– Christopher Orr,
The New Republic,
18 Sep 2008
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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
– Jonathan F. Richards,
Film.com,
5 Feb 2008
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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.