Fresh
One of the most wholly original American movies ever made.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
There Will Be Blood
There will be greed. There will be vengeance.
2007 · 2h 38m · R
Drama
Directed by
Paul Thomas Anderson
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Paul Thomas Anderson Director
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview
- Paul Dano as Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday
- Dillon Freasier as H. W.
- Ciarán Hinds as Fletcher
- Kevin J. O'Connor as Henry
- Hope Elizabeth Reeves as Elizabeth
- Colleen Foy as Mary Sunday
- Barry Del Sherman as H. B. Ailman
- David Willis Cast
- Hans Howes Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This sometimes magnificent, decidedly strange film is a portrait of a terrible, rapacious man.
Bob Mondello, NPR.org
Fresh
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
Fresh
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
Fresh
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.
Christy Lemire, Associated Press
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