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From: Pacific Sun
Date: 20080111
Author:Polt, Renata

'Blood' slightly anemic. . .

Oil baron depicted as morally bankrupt misanthrope-disbelief officially suspended!

There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's exploitatively titled adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel, Oil!, is by turns hypnotic and maddening.

On one hand, I couldn't take my eyes off Daniel Day-Lewis, playing hardscrabble-miner-turned-oil-magnate Daniel Plainview, or Robert Elswit's magnificent cinematography of the bleak California landscapes (actually filmed around Marfa, Texas) where Daniel strikes oil.

On the other, I sometimes wanted to plug my ears at the film's ...

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