There Will Be Blood
15, nationwide
Juno
12A, nationwide
There Will Be Blood (oh, yes) stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview, a late-19th-century American oilman whose own view could not be plainer: find oil, beat off the competition, buy the land, drill it, get rich. And that’s about it, not that it matters. It’s the genius — a word that should never be used lightly; which is why I hope you can see I just used it heavily — of Day-Lewis’s performance that will keep you with it. Day-Lewis is, surely, every actor’s actor, even though they all probably hate him at some level. ‘If Day-Lewis is making a movie this year, then I am not.’ Apparently, outside the industry Day-Lewis is also a talented cobbler and carpenter so, if I were a movie actor, I would be putting in a lot of orders for shoes and cupboards and I would be putting them in right now.
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