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There Will Be Blood
The movie tells a story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.


















18 February 1943, Seneca Falls, New York, USA

10 June 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA


29 April 1954, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

6 March 1996, Fort Davis, Texas, USA








10 September 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA

9 February 1953, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK


15 November 1963, Chicago, Illinois, USA





September 16, 2015
It is the work of masters perfecting their craft, setting off together towards a horizon of shining prowess to discover, quite literally, the pinnacle of their cinematic potential.
October 14, 2012
As a character study, There Will Be Blood is unsurpassed. Just don't expect to strike oil straight away.
January 29, 2008
The moments that linger long after you've left the theater and forgotten how damned tedious the whole thing was are with Paul Dano's smug, moon-faced preacher
June 12, 2010
Anderson's vision is uncompromising and razor sharp. Nothing in his first four features quite prepares us for the precision and vicious wit displayed here.
April 21, 2017
... reworks the American entrepreneurial success story as an elemental frontier myth, roughly hewn out of the landscape that is remade in its wake.
April 28, 2011
Who suggested the John Huston accent? We keep expecting Daniel Plainview to molest a young niece or something.
October 18, 2008
One of the most wholly original American movies ever made.
September 30, 2014
Perhaps the best barometer of Anderson's astonishing success here is that he manages to invest this weighty allegory with such a wealth of character and nuance.
January 18, 2008
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.
September 18, 2008
There Will Be Blood establishes itself as a film of Darwinian ferocity, a stark and pitiless parable of American capitalism.
October 18, 2008
This sometimes magnificent, decidedly strange film is a portrait of a terrible, rapacious man.
February 05, 2008
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