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Bolstered by powerful lead performances from Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men finds the Coen brothers spinning cinematic gold out of Cormac McCarthy's grim, darkly funny novel.
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The lack of respect for the body, the sheer bloody aftermath depresses me. Yes, they may handle the killing with verve and ironic tension, but this is a Coen brothers film too far. Jan 11, 2018 | Full Review…
The lack of respect for the body, the sheer bloody aftermath depresses me. Yes, they may handle the killing with verve and ironic tension, but this is a Coen brothers film too far.
Liz Hoggard
Played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem, Chigurh is the most original bogeyman to bloody up the screen in a while. Feb 22, 2015 | Full Review…
Played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem, Chigurh is the most original bogeyman to bloody up the screen in a while.
Tom Charity
No Country for Old Men is a thoroughly compelling exercise in the cinema of suspense that proves the power of the old-school thriller remains undiminished. Feb 22, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
No Country for Old Men is a thoroughly compelling exercise in the cinema of suspense that proves the power of the old-school thriller remains undiminished.
Jim Schembri
Just as the movie is beginning to conform to genre expectations (like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre meets Fargo), the Coens have the guts, and indeed the smarts, to pull it in an entirely different direction. Feb 22, 2015 | Full Review…
Just as the movie is beginning to conform to genre expectations (like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre meets Fargo), the Coens have the guts, and indeed the smarts, to pull it in an entirely different direction.
Kevin Maher
For a film that traffics in implacable malice, this movie remains remarkably grounded in the everyday. Oct 18, 2008 | Full Review…
For a film that traffics in implacable malice, this movie remains remarkably grounded in the everyday.
Bob Mondello
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. Sep 18, 2008 | Full Review…
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.
Christopher Orr
The consequences are powerfully gripping as the Coens ratchet up the tension in a visceral thriller that ranks with their best work. Feb 19, 2019 | Full Review…
The consequences are powerfully gripping as the Coens ratchet up the tension in a visceral thriller that ranks with their best work.
Michael Dwyer
It's a smart film and pure Coen. It has a point, though some may contest it. But it's not a must-see film for everyone so if you are a Coen fan, don't take your grandmother. She will say it sucks. Mar 1, 2018 | Full Review…
It's a smart film and pure Coen. It has a point, though some may contest it. But it's not a must-see film for everyone so if you are a Coen fan, don't take your grandmother. She will say it sucks.
Sr. Rose Pacatte
The Coen Brothers are back with a triumphant return to form. Feb 28, 2018 | Full Review…
The Coen Brothers are back with a triumphant return to form.
Joe Sommerlad
No Country for Old Men is a great return to form for the Coens. Even if you've never been a big fan of theirs, it's a film you should see if you like a good thriller. Feb 28, 2018 | Full Review…
No Country for Old Men is a great return to form for the Coens. Even if you've never been a big fan of theirs, it's a film you should see if you like a good thriller.
Edward Porter
The film clearly and finally represents the mainstream success that has long eluded the Coens. Longtime fans, fear not: This is no sell-out. There is still plenty of what the Coens do best. Feb 28, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The film clearly and finally represents the mainstream success that has long eluded the Coens. Longtime fans, fear not: This is no sell-out. There is still plenty of what the Coens do best.
Giovanni Fazio
The Coens have returned... full of talent. [Full review in Spanish] Feb 27, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The Coens have returned... full of talent. [Full review in Spanish]
Carlos Marañón
Press the replay button again, because this one's a keeper, for sure, as Javier Bardem re-ups the ante some on just what's wrong with those darn kids nowadays in this savvy commentary on modern times. The title doesn't really hit you until after you see it. America the beautiful? This work adores the America everybody is mostly trying to get away from, the America with big wide open spaces in between ... and what can happen there. See a guy sweat bullets just fer askin' "how's the weather up there?" in one of my fav scenes...see it, see it, see it.
Super Reviewer
A phenomenal Western concerning discovered treasure and the troubles it brings for one individual (Josh Brolin), unbeknowest to him that a maniacal serial killer (Javier Bardem) won't rest until he has what's his. It has a beautiful take on the downward spiral humanity is in and the detachment many country folk feel from the current world advancing so fast in technology and forgetting their roots. Bardem is especially memorable as the villain, who is frightening all the way to the end. In my mind though, not worthy of the "Best Picture" honor it received at the Academy Awards that year (that belongs to "Into the Wild"), but still, a truly great film that has aged wonderfully.
A Texan welder stumbles across the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and helps himself to the $2 million in cash no-one is left alive to claim. Unfortunately he does not count on a single minded psychopathic killer with a tracking device...This film basically distills elements of all their best work and creates a cold and cynical statement on the state of man. Javier Bardem's character is the most chilling and amoral bastard you will ever see; on more than one occasion he reminded me of a terminator with bad hair, except more cold-blooded! The pursuit of the stolen money just leads to bloodshed and tragedy for all involved, many innocents dying for just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The underlying theme is the randomness of life; good things DO NOT happen to good people and there is no karmic "masterplan". This means that the ending may leave some feeling a little cheated because things aren't tied up nicely into a complete and satisfying package as so many stories are conventionally presented. But the journey there is as gripping as anything you are going to see; it has the tension, brooding atmosphere and cynicism of Blood Simple, the pragmatic investigation by a dismayed lawman in a similar way to Fargo and the style and brutal violence of Miller's Crossing. The shoot out between Bardem and Brolin is one of the best I've ever seen, reminding me of Michael Mann meets Peckinpah with a dash of Assault On Precinct 13. It is a case of the journey being better than the destination, but any Coen brothers fan will not be disappointed; they are back to their best.
Based and followed almost to a tee of the book the movie has some of the most unexplainable violence ive ever seen.
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