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No Country for Old Men (2007)
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Reviews Counted:221
Fresh:208
Rotten:13
Average Rating:8.5/10
Consensus: Another triumph for the Coen Brothers, No Country has the perfect mixture of suspense, humor, and desperately compelling performances. The seemingly simple story hides a more complex narrative, and high tension is maintained throughout.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Drugs, Suspense, Thriller, Murder, Theatrical Release, Serial Killers, Money
Theatrical Release:Nov 21, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $74,223,625
Synopsis: With NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, the Coen Brothers have found a perfect match in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy. Their adaptation of McCarthy's praised novel is a staggering masterpiece.... [More]
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly MacDonald
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
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Reviews for No Country for Old Men
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The decade's most overrated movie Full Review |
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Once you open Pandora's Box, there's simply no stopping the beasts that pour out. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
No Country for Old Men is the brothers at their most polished, austere, and humorless. Full Review |
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5.0/5 |
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 Full Review |
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For a film that traffics in implacable malice, this movie remains remarkably grounded in the everyday. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
This is some of Brolin's best work to date, though the film still belongs to Bardem and Jones, whose low-key mannerisms are well-suited to the Coens' sensibilities. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Although 'No Country for Old Men' is an exciting film, wise screen violence needs more emotional depth below surface technique. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Not since Fargo have the Coen Brothers made such a perfect movie. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The Coen Brothers explore the demise of the Western with their late-80s-set drama about a simple man running from a amoral assassin. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Why, Joel and Ethan, why did you have to ruin an almost flawless film with a terrible last scene? Full Review |
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5/5 |
I was a little worried when I went to see "No Country for Old Men" because many people have been labeling it a masterpiece, but for once all the hype is warranted. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Without overstating the case this could be Joel and Ethan Coen's finest work yet. A bruising, battering, almost religious experience. Full Review |
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3/5 |
No Country for Old Men is the kind of film that will only cement the opinion you already have about its uniquely eccentric makers. Approach the ticket booth accordingly. Full Review |
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88/100 |
Retains the Coen brothers' trademark quirkiness, and it certainly goes all out. But it's also subtle in ways we haven't seen before. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
The most fascinating element of the film is its formal linking of its multiple, no-nonsense protagonists. [Blu-Ray review] Full Review |
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Thank goodness that experiment in appeasing the commercial suit types is over and the quirky brothers are back to form with No Country for Old Men, a dark and violent exploration of nature's hunt and the relevance of time. Full Review |
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8/10 |
The problem comes when we realize it's a Tommy Lee Jones film and the title is more than just a random coincidence. It's a really good film that was almost great. Full Review |
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6/10 |
...the Coens sabotage their wonderfully understated style in No Country with the trivial substance of their narrative. Full Review |
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