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For a film that traffics in implacable malice, this movie remains remarkably grounded in the everyday.
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.
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.
Joel and Ethan Coen have directed their best film since Fargo more than a decade ago.
[It] just might be the Coen brothers' singular mythic masterwork.
A cold, rough look at the dissolution of just about everything. It will bother you afterward. It should.
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.
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.
McCarthy's bloody and beautiful novel comes to life under the Coen's able touch.
The decade's most overrated movie
Once you open Pandora's Box, there's simply no stopping the beasts that pour out.
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.
No Country for Old Men is the brothers at their most polished, austere, and humorless.
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.
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
You may scratch your head at the title, but when the credits roll, you'll know exactly what that means
Ultimately, No Country For Old Men is a very strong film that's just a couple of bad decisions away from being a masterpiece.
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