There Will Be Blood (2007)

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

A mad, disorienting film despite its stately pace, Anderson's superb return to form after the blundering Punch-Drunk Love and the overblown Magnolia is distinguished by excellent writing (frequently funny, sinister and bizarre), rich photography, Jonny Greenwood's remarkable score, and, of course, Daniel Day-Lewis's towering turn as oil prospector Daniel Plainview. His casting certainly builds on his existing Bill the Butcher persona from Scorsese's Gangs of New York, but in Plainview he finds greater depth (and with it greater ambiguity) - and more weirdness.