Metacritic Movie Ratings
There Will Be Blood Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

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  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  For bleakness, the movie can't be beat -- nor for brilliance.

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  The New York TimesManohla 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.

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  VarietyTodd McCarthy

  Boldly and magnificently strange, There Will Be Blood marks a significant departure in the work of Paul Thomas Anderson.

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  The Hollywood Reporter

  Daniel Day-Lewis stuns in Paul Thomas Anderson's saga of a soul-dead oil man.

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• 90

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  Los Angeles TimesKenneth 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.

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• 88

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  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  A searingly intense and artful tale that grabs hold of the viewer from its jarring and wordless opening scenes and doesn't let go.

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• 88

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  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  The kind of film that is easily called great. I am not sure of its greatness. It was filmed in the same area of Texas used by "No Country for Old Men," and that is a great film, and a perfect one. But There Will Be Blood"is not perfect, and in its imperfections we may see its reach exceeding its grasp. Which is not a dishonorable thing.

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