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The small story fills the screen with confidence and unwinds with academy award winning grace, then ends disappointingly. Daniel Day-Lewis is flat out one of the greatest actors of our time. He's magnificent in "There Will Be Blood," although, I think he was even better in Gangs of New York. Interestingly, he plays a power monger in both films with a vulnerability for family, and in both films takes under his wings a surrogate son. I'm also a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson. I loved his Magnolia - one of my all time favorite films actually. But, I've since not been as impressed with his work. His talent in scripting and directing is always obvious, but at least here, it's the follow through that's lacking. It's the absence of a resounding emotional climax, for which the work so deservingly seems to promise. Everything is ...
Overall, a convergence of many excellent elements that misses. This film screened at a Krikorian Theatre.
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