Where Paul Thomas Anderson's previous films are layered with multiple characters, dovetailing conflicts and weird kawinkydinks, his latest is refined, focused, and real-life unsettling. There Will Be Blood, an adaptation of Upton Sinclair's ever-topical 1927 novel Oil!, is just as skillfully orchestrated as Boogie Nights and Magnolia, but resonates more than a big-dick or raining-frogs story ever could.
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