There Will Be Blood

This film, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on a novel by Upton Sinclair, and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, was interminably long at 158 minutes. But if it had been cut down by half it still wouldn’t have amounted to much.
It depicts an anarchic world ruled by mindless and gratuitous violence, greed and revenge. The landscape [...]






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