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No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Cutting Edge Cutting Edge
Dat de VS geweld exporteren wisten we al langer. Met hun veelvuldig bekroonde thriller wrijven Joel en Ethan Coen het er gewoon nog eens lekker in. De broertjes kunnen vele genres aan, maar met een zwart crimineel verhaal als 'Fargo' of 'The man who ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Cutting Edge
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for TwitchTwitch
I’m reviewing this late because I wanted to be sure how I felt about it. Had I been hoodwinked? Had the Coens simply removed some credit from their still pretty flush bank account? After all these guys were far from infallible. The Ladykillers and ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Twitch
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood Reporter
oel and Ethan Coen's In Competition film is titled "No Country for Old Men," but it's set in an unforgiving 1980s West Texas landscape that appears to be populated with nothing but old men. Lawmen, mostly, like Tommy Lee Jones' Sheriff Bell, pining for ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Hollywood Reporter
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Ruthless Reviews Ruthless Reviews
Though it fails to secure its promised place as a modern masterpiece, the latest from Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel, at last sheds that wink-and-a-nod style that has often burdened their previous efforts. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Ruthless Reviews
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for WFAA-TV (Gary Cogill)WFAA-TV (Gary Cogill)
No Country For Old Men is the best film ever created by the Coen brothers. It is a remarkable, disturbing, often poetic bite of Texas starring Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones as a soft spoken, small town, West Texas sheriff out to catch a killer, played ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at WFAA-TV (Gary Cogill)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for The Seattle Times (Moira Macdonald)The Seattle Times (Moira Macdonald)
Cormac McCarthy's dark Western yarn "No Country for Old Men," written in prose as spare as prairie grass, comes to the movies as something unexpected: a showcase for the talents of Tommy Lee Jones. As Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, pursuing a thief (Josh Brolin) ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Seattle Times (Moira Macdonald)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for New Times (Luke Y. Thompson)New Times (Luke Y. Thompson)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. People are calling it the best film of the year, and if it isn't, it's darn close. The Coen brothers have been spinning their wheels for a while -- O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU was good, but I can take or leave INTOLERABLE CRUELTY, ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at New Times (Luke Y. Thompson)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Flak Magazine (Sean Weitner)Flak Magazine (Sean Weitner)
When the filmmaking fraternity of Joel and Ethan Coen loosely adapted Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key into Miller's Crossing, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep into The Big Lebowski or Homer's Odyssey into O Brother Where Art Thou, the magic of those ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Flak Magazine (Sean Weitner)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for NPR's Morning Edition (Kenneth Turan)NPR's Morning Edition (Kenneth Turan)
A hunter, stalking a wounded deer in the Texas desert, comes across a scene of carnage: A drug deal gone wrong, corpses everywhere, $2 million in a suitcase. The hunter, played in No Country for Old Men by Josh Brolin, takes the suitcase — and knowing ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at NPR's Morning Edition (Kenneth Turan)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for NPR's Fresh Air (David Edelstein)NPR's Fresh Air (David Edelstein)
A hunter, stalking a wounded deer in the Texas desert, comes across a scene of carnage: A drug deal gone wrong, corpses everywhere, $2 million in a suitcase. The hunter, played in No Country for Old Men by Josh Brolin, takes the suitcase — and knowing ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at NPR's Fresh Air (David Edelstein)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Time Out New York (Joshua Rothkopf)Time Out New York (Joshua Rothkopf)
Like a pair of owlish mind readers, the Coen brothers have somehow done exactly the right thing to repuff their sagging artistic momentum. Once celebrated for reams of quirky dialogue that would have choked Barton Fink, they now arrive with a new film ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Time Out New York (Joshua Rothkopf)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for New York Magazine (David Edelstein)New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
The best movie opening this week is Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men, a faithful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s downbeat thriller, which I wrote about at length before its New York Film Festival opening. You can find that piece online (al ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for World Socialist Web SiteWorld Socialist Web Site
The latest effort by the Coen brothers is a vacuous and disappointing film. The work of these filmmakers has up to this point been uneven, featuring a widely, and rightly recognized cinematic talent paired to a definite tendency toward detachment and ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at World Socialist Web Site
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Frank's Reel ReviewsFrank's Reel Reviews
During an early and particularly brutal scene at my screening of No Country For Old Men, I overheard a viewer seated behind me mumble that she was confused as to why people were laughing. She said, "I don't get it," and then rustled brusquely in her ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Frank's Reel Reviews
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Plugged InPlugged In
Texas Sheriff Ed Tom Bell remembers a day when respected lawmen could deal with a problem without having to even draw their firearms. He's tried to follow those old-timers' lessons throughout his career, but things nowadays just don't seem to be that ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Plugged In
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
As I sit here and write this review, no more than ten hours ago Joel and Ethan Coen were on stage in Hollywood, CA accepting their second Oscar of the night (the first for Best Adapted Screenplay) and would soon be joined by Producer Scott Rudin to ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for The Onion A.V. ClubThe Onion A.V. Club
Hunting antelope somewhere on the desolate plains of Texas, Josh Brolin happens on the remains of a drug deal gone bad. Bodies of Texans and Mexicans (and one unfortunate dog) lie riddled with bullets in a circle of pickup trucks. One truck contains a ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Onion A.V. Club
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for
You know the Coen Brothers are back on top of their game when they somehow derive maximum tension from the banal image of a candy wrapper slowly uncrinkling on a dusty countertop. No Country for Old Men may be the boys' first literary adaptation — most ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Boxoffice Magazine (Richard Mowe)Boxoffice Magazine (Richard Mowe)
With stunning landscapes around the Tex-Mex border shot by Roger Deakins and the elements of pursuit and retribution, the saga draws from the Western tradition in which the characters become dwarfed by nature. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Boxoffice Magazine (Richard Mowe)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for hoopla.nuhoopla.nu
Much like in 2006 when the best film of that year (Babel) was released on Boxing Day, so it is with No Country for Old Men which scrapes in at the last minute and heads straight to the top of the films of the year. While hunting in the Texan prairie ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at hoopla.nu
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for MTV (Kurt Loder)MTV (Kurt Loder)
The Coen brothers...shape the parched, timeless Tex-Mex borderland into a character itself, a place where good and evil alike swelter under the sun, and the prairie wind whistles by uncaring. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at MTV (Kurt Loder)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Tiscali UKTiscali UK
Coming up with original and innovative ways to kill people has become quite a challenge for writers, so Cormac McCarthy deserves credit for the creative method he ascribed to the sociopathic murderer in his novel on which No Country For Old Men is based. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Tiscali UK
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for NewsBlaze (Prairie Miller)NewsBlaze (Prairie Miller)
A kind of neo-Western in the worst sense of that formerly idealized notion, Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country For Old Men is biblical, meditative but also a brash, horrific and even comical post-modern cowboy dystopia where saddles, spurs and cowpokes ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at NewsBlaze (Prairie Miller)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Maxim (Pete Hammond)Maxim (Pete Hammond)
A great American film. A dark and sometimes bleakly comic vision of our violent culture. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Maxim (Pete Hammond)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for DVD Clinic ("Quigles")DVD Clinic ("Quigles")
...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at DVD Clinic ("Quigles")
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Bullz-Eye.comBullz-Eye.com
It’s been a long time since the Coen brothers delivered a film worthy of any critical recognition. The last one that comes to mind is the musical comedy “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” but for fans of the Coen’s trademark blood-and-money crime drama ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Bullz-Eye.com
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for ReelzChannel (Jeff Otto)ReelzChannel (Jeff Otto)
First, let me preface this review by telling you that I am a huge fan of the Coen Brothers. I’ve liked all of their movies for one reason or another. Sure, I admit there are weaker entries (Ladykillers, The Man Who Wasn’t There) but I liked those as w ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at ReelzChannel (Jeff Otto)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
An intense, nihilistic thriller as well as a model of implacable storytelling, this is a film you can't stop watching even though you very much wish you could. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
It seems at first like an odd pairing: the Coen brothers, they of the dark-humored film genre conflations, and Cormac McCarthy, the modern laureate of the Southern gothic novel. Yet the adaptation by Joel and Ethan Coen (both co-credited as writer and ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for DVD Talk (Daniel Hirshleifer)DVD Talk (Daniel Hirshleifer)
The Coen Brothers have practiced their particular brand of cinematic mayhem for over twenty years. They've jumped genres multiple times, from the crime yarns of Miller's Crossing and Fargo to the absurdism of Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski. Each of ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at DVD Talk (Daniel Hirshleifer)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Eye for Film ("Chris")Eye for Film ("Chris")
No Country For Old Men is almost like one of those Zen sayings. A frantic chase where nothing happens very quickly. A puzzle where the question is more meaningful than the answer. That sort of thing. As if to disprove the title, old man Tommy Lee ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Eye for Film ("Chris")
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie VoiceFilm Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for FilmJudge (David Mercier)FilmJudge (David Mercier)
Vietnam veteran and hunter Llewelyn Moss (Brolin) stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong in the middle of the Texan desert. He finds a briefcase containing some $2 million, and goes on the run from those who might want it back. One of those men is Anton ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at FilmJudge (David Mercier)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Future Movies (Paul Greenwood)Future Movies (Paul Greenwood)
It's been a long time since we got a truly great movie from the Coen brothers. No Country For Old Men is so close to being a great movie you can taste it. As it stands though, an air of dissatisfaction, bordering on loss, hangs over it. This is down to ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Future Movies (Paul Greenwood)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
It's the kind of movie that cries out for a second look, because it's easy to admire, hard to actually like and harder still to penetrate ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Not since Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) can I remember a film in which dead silence is used more exquisitely and more frequently to produce nearly unbearable tension than it is in Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men. Faithfully based on ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Eye for Film (Anton Bitel)Eye for Film (Anton Bitel)
"I was sheriff of this county when I was 25 years old. My grandfather was a lawman. Father too…" The voice-over that opens No Country For Old Men is a nostalgic plea for tradition, as well as an elegiac recognition of its passing into oblivion. As he ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Eye for Film (Anton Bitel)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
The Coens load the film with realistic touches that add grit and meaning to the almost mythical plot. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for ShowBizCafe.com (Axel Flowers)ShowBizCafe.com (Axel Flowers)
Confieso que últimamente el cine norteamericano me ha decepcionado y me ha dejado buscando refugio en las producciones extranjeras que han amenazado al mundo de Hollywood con su narrativa sincera y sus ideas provocativas y desafiantes. Pero les advierto: ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at ShowBizCafe.com (Axel Flowers)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Holds up against the Coens' earlier genre masterpieces like Miller's Crossing and Fargo . ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for New York Times (A.O. Scott)New York Times (A.O. Scott)
For formalists -- those moviegoers sent into raptures by tight editing, nimble camera work and faultless sound design -- No Country for Old Men is pure heaven. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at New York Times (A.O. Scott)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Sacramento News & Review (Jonathan Kiefer)Sacramento News & Review (Jonathan Kiefer)
No Country for Old Men isn’t quite a masterpiece. It’s simply an exercise in fine craftsmanship, whose craftsmen suit each other superbly. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Sacramento News & Review (Jonathan Kiefer)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for PopMatters (Bill Gibron)PopMatters (Bill Gibron)
Shockingly effective and incomprehensibly great, No Country for Old Men proves that the Coen Brothers are America's reigning motion picture Gods. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at PopMatters (Bill Gibron)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for TheMovieChicks.com (Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone)TheMovieChicks.com (Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone)
The tension of being around a psycho-killer like Anton keeps you on the edge of your seat, with the much-needed relief coming in the brand of humor that only the Coen brothers can deliver. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at TheMovieChicks.com (Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Metromix.com (Geoff Berkshire)Metromix.com (Geoff Berkshire)
Like the best of Alfred Hitchcock, it's easy to imagine the movie casting its sinister spell on audiences for years to come. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Metromix.com (Geoff Berkshire)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)
the neo-western byproduct of a deranged and adrift zeitgeist ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for IGN Movies (--)IGN Movies (--)
No Country for Old Men feels like a movie the Coens would have made years ago. The star power is there but unobtrusive, the palette harsh and unfriendly, but perfectly pitched to the story's tone. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at IGN Movies (--)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Jam! Movies (Bruce Kirkland)Jam! Movies (Bruce Kirkland)
Both perplexing and engrossing as it explores humanity's animal instincts. This being McCarthy and the Coens, nothing is spelled out. The seeds are there and they will flourish in a fertile mind. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Jam! Movies (Bruce Kirkland)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for New York Times (A.O. Scott)New York Times (A.O. Scott)
For formalists -- those moviegoers sent into raptures by tight editing, nimble camera work and faultless sound design -- No Country for Old Men is pure heaven. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at New York Times (A.O. Scott)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Spirituality and Practice (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)Spirituality and Practice (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
A quirky and bloody meditation on the rising tide of violence in America by the Coen brothers. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Spirituality and Practice (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.04 out of 4 stars for Apollo Guide (Dan Jardine)Apollo Guide (Dan Jardine)
Wildly overpraised, but a solid return to form for the Coen Bros. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Apollo Guide (Dan Jardine)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Baltimore City Paper (Bret McCabe)Baltimore City Paper (Bret McCabe)
The Coen Brothers Shirk Quirkiness To Make A Darkly Brilliant Crime Movie ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Baltimore City Paper (Bret McCabe)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
May be the most faithful screen adaptation of a novel since John Huston directed 'The Maltese Falcon' in 1941... ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Box Office ProphetsBox Office Prophets
No Country for Old Men is a film of such incalculable power it deserves its own course in film schools. Students could learn that a story's efficacy stems not from plot or trickery, but from characters' behavior. The people in this film behave not ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Box Office Prophets
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Film School Rejects (Matthew Alexander)Film School Rejects (Matthew Alexander)
It has been nearly a decade since the Coen brothers have done anything worth remembering. Most of their recent efforts have been silly little films that tried too hard to be cutesy, or artsy or both. The Man Who Wasn’t There was a serious piece, but it ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Film School Rejects (Matthew Alexander)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Arrow in the Head ("The Arrow")Arrow in the Head ("The Arrow")
...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Arrow in the Head ("The Arrow")
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Hollywood Reporter (Ray Bennett)Hollywood Reporter (Ray Bennett)
Joel and Ethan Coen's In Competition film is titled "No Country for Old Men," but it's set in an unforgiving 1980s West Texas landscape that appears to be populated with nothing but old men. Lawmen, mostly, like Tommy Lee Jones' Sheriff Bell, pining for ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Hollywood Reporter (Ray Bennett)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
There's less to the Coen brothers' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 somber thriller than meets the eye, but it's a hugely entertaining slice of sunbaked Gothic. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
With No Country for Old Men the Coens may have made their ultimate statement. You may not agree with their pessimism, but they so effectively tell their story that you cannot help but be swept up in their vision. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Oregonian (--)Oregonian (--)
If Hannibal Lecter ever wakes up screaming, it might be that he's been dreaming of Anton Chigurh. With a name like a death rattle, a Frankenstein gait, a hollow voice, gelid eyes and a sadistic relish of others' pain, Chigurh, as played by Javier ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Oregonian (--)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
A major Coen brothers movie drawn from a minor Cormac McCarthy novel, this is a highly accomplished thriller that's also rather hypocritical when it tries to get moralistic about its bloodbaths. (Even more than its source, it taps into fundamentalist ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
A world of bad men that's easy to get trapped in and impossible to escape from ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for cinemattraction (Martin Tsai)cinemattraction (Martin Tsai)
The Coen Brothers function only in two genres: the noir and the screwball. This pattern emerged more than a decade ago with their first two films, Blood Simple and Raising Arizona, and little has changed since. Critics at Cannes must have suffered a ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at cinemattraction (Martin Tsai)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (--)City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (--)
Adapted from the novel by Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men represents the Coen brothers' strongest filmmaking in the nine years since The Big Lebowski. Matter of fact, the first three-quarters of this bloodsoaked Texas noir, returning the native ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (--)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Slant Magazine (Nick Schager)Slant Magazine (Nick Schager)
The Coens' first film since their leaden remake of The Ladykillers is an exceptional return to their Blood Simple roots, offering up a crime saga in which money is almost as irresistible as bad choices are inevitable. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Slant Magazine (Nick Schager)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Rich in visual imagery, sparse on dialogue (though what there is is choice) and filled with the unique brand of Coen quirkiness audiences have come to recognize. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Film Journal International (Lewis Beale)Film Journal International (Lewis Beale)
No Country for Old Men is the closest the great Cormac McCarthy has come to writing genre fiction. It’s the story of a clueless Texas schnook (played here by an excellent Josh Brolin) who stumbles across $2 million in illicit drug money, absconds with ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Film Journal International (Lewis Beale)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Gorilla Pants (Melissa Prusi)Gorilla Pants (Melissa Prusi)
No Country for Old Men follows a pretty straightforward narrative line: A West Texas hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and makes off with a briefcase full of money. A hit man relentlessly pursues him to retrieve the cash, while ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Gorilla Pants (Melissa Prusi)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The Popkorn JunkieThe Popkorn Junkie
Since I have enjoyed most of the past films of the Coen brothers --Fargo, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple among others – and I am an “old man”, I thought I should see this film. It was tense, bloody and frightening, but, I am almost ashamed to say, le ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Popkorn Junkie
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for CineScene.com (Howard Schumann)CineScene.com (Howard Schumann)
No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers’ brilliant adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s bloody lament for a vanished America, hits the ground running. A prisoner, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), turns himself into the police then strangles a Sheriff’s d ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at CineScene.com (Howard Schumann)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The Phantom TollboothThe Phantom Tollbooth
In the blaze of the 1980 West Texas heat unusual things are going down--unusual at least for a slow-paced, Lone Star small town with Tommy Lee Jones' Sheriff Moss, a world weary sheriff at the helm. The Coen Brothers, drawing from Cormac McCarthy's ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Phantom Tollbooth
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
...the Coen brothers' most consistent and flat-out entertaining effort since 1996's Fargo ... ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for RogerEbert.com (Jim Emerson)RogerEbert.com (Jim Emerson)
Toronto's is an international film festival, and naturally the films are shot in locations all over the world. But one thing so many of the best films in this year's fest have in common (a thing all great films have in common) is not the places in which ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at RogerEbert.com (Jim Emerson)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Fantastica Daily (Mervius)Fantastica Daily (Mervius)
Javier Bardem's villainous Anton Chigurh rolls through the movie like a force of nature... a tornado inside a hurricane wrapped in a snowstorm at the blistering hot equator. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Fantastica Daily (Mervius)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Richmond Times-DispatchRichmond Times-Dispatch
Blood seeps across the screen in "No Country for Old Men." It flows. It drips. It pools. It coagulates. The new film by Joel and Ethan Coen is a sort of memento mori, a reminder that death comes to all of us. If you have the misfortune to be one of ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Richmond Times-Dispatch
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Raging Bull Movie Reviews (Mike Lorefice)Raging Bull Movie Reviews (Mike Lorefice)
Hunter and hunted are largely concurrent roles in this excellent cat and mouse game, crosscutting between an ordinary man who stumbles upon a $2 million drug deal turned fatal and those who rise from the ashes to regain the lost loot. Sticking to the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Raging Bull Movie Reviews (Mike Lorefice)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Blackfilm.comBlackfilm.com
While hunting antelope in the desert along the Rio Grande border, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles upon the fresh carnage of a drug deal gone bad. Although the ground is littered with lots of bullet-riddled corpses and one badly-wounded Mexican, the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Blackfilm.com
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Three Movie Buffs (Scott Nash)Three Movie Buffs (Scott Nash)
No Country for Old Men is almost the best movie of the year. If it wasn't for the fact that it doesn't have an ending it probably would be. I don't mean the movie never stops. I'm not writing this in the theater as the movie plays endlessly on. It's just ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Three Movie Buffs (Scott Nash)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for kids-in-mindkids-in-mind
Ethan & Joel Coen direct this screen adaptation of the eponymous Cormac McCarthy novel: It's the early 1980s and in West Texas a psychopathic killer (Javier Bardem) is looking for a briefcase full of money, while the local man (Josh Brolin) who found the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at kids-in-mind
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Leonard Maltin's Picks Leonard Maltin's Picks
You know you’re about to watch something unusual the moment No Country for Old Men begins, for one simple reason: there is no music. That crucial decision by Joel and Ethan Cohen heightens the sense of portent and unease that dominates the picture. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Leonard Maltin's Picks
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
As pure craftsmanship, No Country for Old Men is as good as we've ever gotten from Joel and Ethan Coen. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (Andrew Wright)The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (Andrew Wright)
When it comes to movies, great books rarely end up in the right hands. Barring the occasional happy accident (such as, say, a New Zealand low-budget gore maven somehow managing to capture and refine the essence of a legendarily long-winded epic fantasy), ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (Andrew Wright)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Entertainment Insiders (Warren Curry)Entertainment Insiders (Warren Curry)
Let me begin by confessing that prior to seeing "No Country for Old Men" I had pretty much given up on the Coen brothers -- sad, since I once considered them near the top of my list of favorite filmmakers. Unlike most fans of their early work, I didn't ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Entertainment Insiders (Warren Curry)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Christianity Today (Jeffrey Overstreet)Christianity Today (Jeffrey Overstreet)
It's almost too good to be true that the Coen Brothers have adapted McCarthy's novel and brought it to the screen, though it is their bleakest work to date. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Christianity Today (Jeffrey Overstreet)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for TIME Magazine (Richard Schickel)TIME Magazine (Richard Schickel)
Take that title literally: This is No Country for Old Men. It may be no country for any life form more evolved than a Gila Monster. We're talking West Texas here, not far from the U.S.-Mexican border. The landscape is as bleak as the moon's dark side and ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at TIME Magazine (Richard Schickel)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for IndiewireIndiewire
The term "return to form" may be overused, but it certainly applies to the Coen Brothers' new adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel "No Country for Old Men" -- in its visual economy, maddeningly beautiful symmetry, and eccentric mundanity the film is a ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Indiewire
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for UR Chicago Magazine (Mark Dujsik)UR Chicago Magazine (Mark Dujsik)
A magnificent return to form for Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men is a virtuoso piece of genre filmmaking. Oh, but it so much more. Most of the film's running time is devoted to formulating a neo-noir Western in the same vein as their debut ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at UR Chicago Magazine (Mark Dujsik)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
This Country is for anyone who loves movies. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (Gina Carbone)Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (Gina Carbone)
If nothing else, No Country should win an award for Best Use of an Oxygen Tank. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (Gina Carbone)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Slate (Dana Stevens)Slate (Dana Stevens)
The result, while it may be their most ambitious and successful film in years, remains just a Coen brothers movie, a curio to collect rather than an experience to remember. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Slate (Dana Stevens)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
WITH "No Country for Old Men," the Coen brothers drop the mask. They've put violence on screen before, lots of it, but not like this. Not anything like ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Can Magazine (Fred Topel)Can Magazine (Fred Topel)
The Coen Brothers make the same old story exciting again by telling the entire story in action. Nobody explains their plans, they just see what they have to do and do it. It's all clear, and it's never slow. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Can Magazine (Fred Topel)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Newsday (Jan Stuart)Newsday (Jan Stuart)
This acerbic, darkly poetic Coen brothers' take on the Cormac McCarthy novel is calculated to give you the willies. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Newsday (Jan Stuart)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for New York Daily NewsNew York Daily News
If anyone were to be up to the task of adapting Cormac McCarthy's great modern Western novel "No Country for Old Men," it would be the Coen brothers. And in attempting it, they have nearly achieved it. The "nearly" is significant because the flaw of ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at New York Daily News
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco Chronicle
No Country for Old Men: Drama. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem and Kelly Macdonald. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. (R. 122 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) At first, "No Country for Old Men" seems like another crime story, ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at San Francisco Chronicle
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Carter Burwell, composer with the Coen Brothers since their first feature, Blood Simple, gets the same credit again on No Country for Old Men. But for most of this black sagebrush yarn about the grim reaper, you'd be hard-pressed to hear anything on the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
It's grim, unforgiving and probably unforgettable -- in some ways you'll want to remember, and in others you may wish you couldn't. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Newark Star-Ledger (Stephen Whitty)Newark Star-Ledger (Stephen Whitty)
No Country for Old Men is based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy, but it shows all the Coen strengths. One is a genuine interest in the way people work. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Newark Star-Ledger (Stephen Whitty)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
What an odd ending. It’d been a while since the conclusion to a film sideswiped me as much as this one did (a couple that I can remember off the top of my head are RULES OF ATTRACTION and LIMBO), but since it’s coming from the Coen brothers, I’m not ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for
Llewelyn Moss (Joss Brolin) finds a pickup truck in the middle of the desert with dead bodies all around. Looking around, he also finds a briefcase with $2 million in hundred dollar bills, which he takes. This sets of a chain of events that change the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)
The return to form for the Coen brothers comes in the unexpected shape of a somber and straightforward adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel into the film version of No Country for Old Men. Lean and mean, the film is unusually sparse despite the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Wolf Entertainment Guide (William Wolf)Wolf Entertainment Guide (William Wolf)
An accomplished but nonetheless problematical film shown at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and then at the New York Film Festival is the Coen brothers’ “No Country for Old Men.” There’s no question that Joel and Ethan Coen know how t ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Wolf Entertainment Guide (William Wolf)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Plume Noire (--)Plume Noire (--)
No Country for Old Men is above all a reflection on change. In a Texas which saw the construction of the United States, Indians and cowboys have disappeared to the benefit of narcotrafficker's. The Coen brothers have kept Sheriff Bell's long ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Plume Noire (--)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
I appreciate "No Country for Old Men" for the skill in the film craft. I understand "No Country for Old Men" for its penetrating disquisition on narrative conventions, and its heroic will in subverting them. I admire "No Country for Old Men" for the way ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)
Watching a film you haven't seen before, you come to know it as you would a new acquaintance. It moves along, taking you into its confidence by following certain well-worn paths — it's a buddy comedy or a domestic drama or a space epic. These paths ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for L.A. Weekly (Scott Foundas)L.A. Weekly (Scott Foundas)
Last weekend, as Jerry Bruckheimer’s pirates were once again storming the international box office, the Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27) bestowed its two top prizes on a gut-wrenching Romanian movie about backroom abortion and a plaintive Japanese drama ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at L.A. Weekly (Scott Foundas)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for The New York Sun (Nicolas Rapold)The New York Sun (Nicolas Rapold)
So "No Country for Old Men" is not a masterpiece, as many, starved of good Coen work, or maybe just competent celluloid menace, have claimed. But it's a well-composed and deployed thriller with more than body counts on its mind, if perhaps more than it ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The New York Sun (Nicolas Rapold)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Salon (Stephanie Zacharek)Salon (Stephanie Zacharek)
Ah, the American West. It ain't what it used to be. Instead of horses and stagecoaches, it's all trucks carrying loads of dope and money over the border; instead of old-timey dry-goods stores stocked with flour, calico and ribbons, it's all quick-stops ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Salon (Stephanie Zacharek)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Twitch (Kurt Halfyard)Twitch (Kurt Halfyard)
Since its debut at Cannes, No Country For Old Men has been getting wild praise on the festival circuit. It may require a second viewing to consider whether or not it is in fact a masterpiece, but as a philosophically laced slice of genre filmmaking it ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Twitch (Kurt Halfyard)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for San Diego Metropolitan (Jean Lowerison)San Diego Metropolitan (Jean Lowerison)
Blood, guts, violence and murder take center stage in Joel and Ethan Coen's retelling of Cormac McCarthy's 2003 novel "No Country for Old Men." Here's the setup: Antelope hunter Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) comes upon a truck circle, several dead ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at San Diego Metropolitan (Jean Lowerison)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for The Guardian at Cannes 2007 (Peter Bradshaw)The Guardian at Cannes 2007 (Peter Bradshaw)
There have been some worthy examples of world cinema at Cannes, but the opening weekend was dominated by Americans: Michael Moore and the Coen brothers. Moore had them watching from the aisles with his exhilarating and hilarious docu-polemic Sicko, ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Guardian at Cannes 2007 (Peter Bradshaw)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for St. Louis Post-DispatchSt. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Coen brothers have, in a sense, come full circle with their stunning new "No Country for Old Men." The filmmakers from Minneapolis began their careers by going to Texas and making a violent, darkly humorous thriller about a killer and his prey. More ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Ebert & Roeper (Richard Roeper)Ebert & Roeper (Richard Roeper)
This film is an evil delight; adapted from Cormack McCarthy’s book, it’s filled with suspense, pitch-black humor and one of the most memorable villains in recent cinema. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Ebert & Roeper (Richard Roeper)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for The New Yorker (Anthony Lane)The New Yorker (Anthony Lane)
The new Coen brothers movie, “No Country for Old Men,” is set in Texas, with a foray over the border into Mexico. The cinematography is by Roger Deakins, a trusted collaborator of the Coens’, who holds the wide, camel-brown sweep of the Texas scrubl ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The New Yorker (Anthony Lane)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Associated Press (Christy Lemire)Associated Press (Christy Lemire)
The revered writer and the acclaimed moviemakers share so much in common: a love of language, a drive to develop rich characters, an appreciation for the importance of a vivid sense of place and an innate ability to tell stories that take you in ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Associated Press (Christy Lemire)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)
“Can’t help but compare yourself against the old times.” Pondering the changes between his father’s generation and his own, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) sounds weary. But even if today’s outlaws are more extremely vicious and absurdly c ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for KYW Newsradio (Bill Wine)KYW Newsradio (Bill Wine)
As usual in the moviemaking universe of the Coen Brothers, style plays in the tournament while substance just carries his clubs. Simultaneously distinctive and disappointing, No Country for Old Men, the latest from the Coens, is a movie to be ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at KYW Newsradio (Bill Wine)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
Perhaps, I'm out of the loop. Perhaps, I'm missing the higher meaning, the artistic twist, the bold filmmaking move. I really think I am missing it, because I'm a big fan of the Coens. But, I've got to say, I'm not much appreciating this picture. The ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for New York Magazine (David Edelstein)New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
No Country for Old Men is dominated by Bardem and his Prince Valiant haircut, basso-Lurch voice, and dark, freaky stare in the extended foreplay before his killings. No one, not even Jones’s sheriff, has comparable weight, and so, in the end, cruelty, ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Santa Fe ReporterSanta Fe Reporter