mines

• Fire Down Below directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá (1997)

  [2/10]

  "Fire Down Below disappointed me in several ways. First, the love interest with Sarah Kellogg (Marg Helenberger) seems artificial, placed in the film to give Taggart easy access to clues that he might have actually had to work to find otherwise. Second, the film doesn't have the requisite antagonist champion whose skill almost matches Seagal's."

• There Will Be Blood directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (2008)

  [7/10]

  "I think Upton Sinclair would approve of this adaptation of his novel. We watch the self-destruction of the main characters as they focus on their greed and lust for power, and we see these empty lives -- like black holes -- draw the goodness and life unwillingly out of the people who happen to cross their path."

  Average score: 4.50