"Every time I’m about to watch a Daniel Day-Lewis movie," writes Variety's Stuart Levine on MSNBC, "I expect to be floored—to be brought into a world I’ve never seen and be enveloped by a character who I will undoubtedly obsess about for days, if not weeks ... Right now Day-Lewis is the Robert De Niro of the late 1970s-early ’80s, back when De Niro was a god among mortals." In There Will Be Blood Day-Lewis has made "as powerful and compelling a character as he’s ever created."
As acting compliments go, it's hard to imagine a better one than a comparison to Raging Bull–era De Niro. And it's the one Stuart Levine, a managing editor at Variety magazine, makes when describing Daniel Day-Lewis. Commenting for MSNBC, Levine says:
Every time I’m about to watch a Daniel Day-Lewis movie, I expect to be floored—to be brought into a world I’ve never seen and be enveloped by a character who I will undoubtedly obsess about for days, if not weeks ... Right now Day-Lewis is the Robert De Niro of the late 1970s-early ’80s, back when De Niro was a god among mortals.
And with There Will Be Blood's Daniel Plainview, says Levine, Day-Lewis has made "as powerful and compelling a character as he’s ever created."
To read the complete commentary, visit msnbc.com.
