There Will Be Blood (2008)Movies

  Kyle Smith review of “There Will Be Blood” 160 minutes/R (graphic violence, profanity)  “There Will Be Blood” seems inspired by a macabre joke. Suppose Capitalism and Evangelism crawled down an inky black hole together. Which one would emerge? “Boogie Nights” director Paul Thomas Anderson never gives you quite what you’re expecting–unanswered questions remain at the end of this rough-hewn 2 hour and 40 minute epic–but in adapting Upton Sinclair’s “Oil!”, about a furiously determined oilman (Daniel Day-Lewis) dredging up some dark gold from California’s hellish depths 100 years ago, Anderson has told a rousing, fantastic-looking fable while finding room for some barbed commentary about the US...