In her "A" review of Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum cites Jonny Greenwood's score in particular for helping to create "a complete universe" in the "towering new American epic and instant modern classic." She praises the film's lead, Daniel Day-Lewis, for giving "a magnificent performance" but calls Greenwood "as much the star of the show as Day-Lewis himself" for his having created a "revolutionary musical score ... like nothing we have ever heard before."

In advance of next Sunday's premiere of the final season of The Wire, the Wall Street Journal's Lauren Mechling examines the series playwright Tony Kushner calls his "favorite TV show." And, he admits, "I watch TV a lot."

Regular visitors to Nonesuch.com may notice some changes we've made to the site. In addition to a new look we've given to the home page, we've added a few new features that will hopefully make your experience here a richer and more interesting one. Here are some of the things you'll find at Nonesuch.com.

Happy holidays from everyone at Nonesuch Records. As we look forward to another incredible year of music in 2008, starting with the first-ever soundtrack from the HBO series The Wire on January 8, we thought we'd celebrate the close of 2007 with a look back at all the great music that came from Nonesuch artists this year. Here they are, the 2007 Nonesuch Records releases, from the most recent, two highly acclaimed soundtracks from what many critics are calling the year's best films, Sweeney Todd and There Will Be Blood (both albums now available in the new Nonesuch Store), to the record that kicked the year off with a rocking good start, Caetano Veloso's Cê.

There Will Be Blood is "one of the most wholly original American movies ever made," writes TIME magazine's Richard Schickel in his review of the film. He calls Daniel Day-Lewis's performance "genius (and I use that word advisedly)," and points in particular to the film's "astonishing" last scene as an example of the actor's unparalleled performance. The film's ending, Schickel writes, "contains what I—resistant as I am to superlatives—consider to be the most explosive and unforgettable 10 or 15 minutes of screen acting I have ever witnessed."

"American cinema produced one flat-out masterpiece this year—Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood," says CNN's Tom Charity, who also calls the film "extraordinary" in his review of the year on screen. The writer was less charitable with some of the year's other artistic efforts, though he does compliment The Wire, proposing that most of the attempts at high-art movies in 2007 "don't measure up to the best TV series: The Wire, Deadwood, and The Sopranos, for example."

The Boston Herald's James Verniere writes that the year's best movie music was Jonny Greenwood's "entire, diabolically mesmerizing score for There Will Be Blood." In a separate article, he names the "insanely brilliant" film among the year's best as well.