No Country for Old Men Reviews

The decade's most overrated movie

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I just don't like it very much.

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Is it a masterpiece? Not even close.

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...the Coens sabotage their wonderfully understated style in No Country with the trivial substance of their narrative.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

While No Country For Old Men is compelling from beginning to end, the film lacks soul.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The Coens' typically superior filmmaking sustains the electrifying mood for most of the picture, but they are undone by being too faithful to the source novel by Cormac McCarthy.

Although 'No Country for Old Men' is an exciting film, wise screen violence needs more emotional depth below surface technique.

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Murder for its own sake wears quickly on me and I found myself wanting to flee the theater, and the sooner the better.

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If I want wry lawmen and smart, calculating fugitives, I'll get them from Elmore Leonard; and, if I want Leonard, I'll take him neat, rather than slow-filtered, drop by drop, through a layer of Faulkner, then laced with the Book of Jeremiah.

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Feels less like a breathing, thinking movie than an exercise. That may be partly because it's an adaptation of a book by a contemporary author who's usually spoken of in hushed, respectful, hat-in-hand tones.

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I may be clearly in the minority on this movie. It will almost certainly be number one on my list of movies that other people liked and I didn't.

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Don't believe the hype. The most unsatisfying conclusion to a film since the final episode of "The Sopranos". And that which led up to it wasn't so great either.

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I'm a big fan of the Coens. But, I've got to say, I'm not much appreciating this picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

This isn't just another notch on the Coen brothers' amazing career of exquisitely crafted crime dramas. It's an instant American classic, and the first truly must-see awards contender of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

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 | Original Score: 5/5

If nothing else, No Country should win an award for Best Use of an Oxygen Tank.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

The story is vintage McCarthy in its sense of place and its poetic voice. And it is vintage Coens for some of those same traits, and its cruel, graphic violence.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

...a thoughtful, mature and earnestly meant work about the essential problem of being human-- the suspicion that this is all there is, and that all our noble ideas about honor and decency, about right and wrong, matter not at all to darkening sky and

Full Review | Original Score: 93/100