No Country for Old Men (2007)

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For a film that traffics in implacable malice, this movie remains remarkably grounded in the everyday.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Bob Mondello

NPR.org

Top Critic

McCarthy's ferocious tale gives the Coens room to unleash their cinematic gifts, but keeps them from wandering too far afield and losing themselves in the marshes of technical prowess or easy irony.

September 18, 2008 Full Review

Christopher Orr

The New Republic

Top Critic

A masterly tale of the good, the deranged and the doomed that inflects the raw violence of the west with a wry acknowledgement of the demise of codes of honour, this is frighteningly intelligent and imaginative.

January 18, 2008 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

With its dizzying alternations of comedy and horror, the film is unmistakably a Coen brothers movie -- albeit a much better one than they've made in a while.

November 20, 2007 Full Review

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

Joel and Ethan Coen have directed their best film since Fargo more than a decade ago.

November 17, 2007 Full Review

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Top Critic

What makes the movie a masterpiece, however, is not the Coens' supreme command of their craft in these scenes, but their willingness to embrace the resigned worldview of McCarthy's novel.

November 16, 2007

Rene Rodriguez

Miami Herald

Top Critic

Cormac McCarthy's amazing novel was blessed with a usually impossible faithful adaption that translated the power of the words and weaved them into cinema.

January 2, 2013 Full Review

Blake Howard

2UE That Movie Show

Films this good come along once, maybe twice in a lifetime.

October 14, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

There's nothing extraordinary about No Country for Old Men -- except, of course, the spectacle of two great directors in total command of their craft.

February 22, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kenigsberg

Time Out Chicago

A mostly absorbing tale of the hunter being subverted into the hunted, No Country For Old Men deserves to be lauded for its gripping, relentless thrills rather than its flawed denouement.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Ben Rawson-Jones

Digital Spy

This film truly belongs to Javier Bardem.

July 6, 2010 Full Review

Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

No Country is a pitch-perfect thriller that delivers the pleasurable fear and suspense expected of the genre even as it sends its conventions to the shredder.

July 6, 2010 Full Review

JM Tyree

Sight and Sound

McCarthy's bloody and beautiful novel comes to life under the Coen's able touch.

June 12, 2010 Full Review

Ian Buckwalter

DCist

The decade's most overrated movie

August 25, 2009 Full Review | Comments (88)

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Once you open Pandora's Box, there's simply no stopping the beasts that pour out.

April 24, 2009 Full Review

Scott Weinberg

FEARnet

What starts off as the best Charles Bronson movie not to star Charles Bronson ends up as a literary adaptation of a novel that thinks it means something or other.

April 23, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Brian Holcomb

CinemaBlend.com

No Country for Old Men is the brothers at their most polished, austere, and humorless.

April 23, 2009 Full Review

Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

Hardly worth a double-dip, but No Country's ambient horror will pin you to the floor and slice into your neck with a taut handcuff chain.

April 7, 2009 Full Review

Eric Henderson

Slant Magazine

When you see No Country for Old Men, leave your preconceptions at home. But bring your Alfred Hitchcock lenses. They're useful. No Country for Old Men is a dazzling time-bomb of a movie. It is an engrossing, brutal, nerve-wracking moral tale

February 2, 2009 Full Review

Tony Macklin

Fayetteville Free Weekly

You may scratch your head at the title, but when the credits roll, you'll know exactly what that means

December 27, 2008 Full Review

Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

3BlackChicks Review

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