OMG, There Will Be Blood
Keith and I caught an early screening of Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood tonight, and several hours later I'm thinking that not only did I see the best film of the year–in a walk–but maybe one of the best movies I've ever seen. This isn't the official A.V. Club take (there'll be a full review closer to the release date, in late December), but I'd be surprised if any of our crack film reviewers will find it anything less than a masterpiece.
So Anderson fans needn't worry, though you may be surprised by how tonally and stylistically different it is from his other films. Then again, he's a director who's consistently offered surprises. (One thing's similar, for sure, though: The music–composed by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood–plays a huge role.) Then there's Daniel Day-Lewis, who appears in virtually every scene of the 158-minute movie: He's uniformly incredible, from silent half-gestures to emotional explosions.
Without revealing much of the plot (it's probably better to go in cold), it's a complex man's simple story rendered hugely, horribly, and wonderfully in equal measure, and it's revelatory as hell.
Now that I've built your expectations way too high, here's the trailer.
So Anderson fans needn't worry, though you may be surprised by how tonally and stylistically different it is from his other films. Then again, he's a director who's consistently offered surprises. (One thing's similar, for sure, though: The music–composed by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood–plays a huge role.) Then there's Daniel Day-Lewis, who appears in virtually every scene of the 158-minute movie: He's uniformly incredible, from silent half-gestures to emotional explosions.
Without revealing much of the plot (it's probably better to go in cold), it's a complex man's simple story rendered hugely, horribly, and wonderfully in equal measure, and it's revelatory as hell.
Now that I've built your expectations way too high, here's the trailer.
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