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STRIKING OIL `There Will Be Blood' extracts money, power, and struggle to epic effect

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20080104
Author:Wesley Morris

Movie Review

There Will Be Blood

Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson

Written by: Anderson, adapted from Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!"

Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis,Paul Dano, Ciaran Hinds,and Dillon Freasier

At: Boston Common, Boston, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, West Newton

Running time: 158 minutes

Rated: R (some violence, includinga fiery explosion that sends a human being flying, and a bowling pin put to unhappy use)

****

Strictly speaking, "There Will Be Blood" doesn't come from the Bible. (It's sprung up from an 80-year-old-old Upton Sinclair novel.) But the movie ...

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