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Palo Alto Online (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Think West Texas circa 1980, an unyielding wasteland of desolation. Loveable loser Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is hunting antelope when he finds himself wrong-place, wrong-time: in the middle of a shady drug deal gone bad. It's a ghostly tableau of ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Palo Alto Online (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Every 11 or 12 years, a frequency comparable to sunspot cycles, Ethan and Joel Coen pop out of their dry comic mode to make a thriller that chills you to the bone. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)
No Country for Old Men isn't the first great movie certain to have its ending criticized even by many who enjoyed the rest of the picture. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)
Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
And boy howdy, does that dialogue howl like a basset hound pup who's just been yanked from his momma. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Film School Rejects (H. Stewart)
Cinematographer Roger Deakins fills the screen, primarily, with the land, leaving very little visible sky, signaling to the audience that the story youâre about to see is not one of heavenly redemption but one of earthly sin, a story set in a ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Film School Rejects (H. Stewart)
Scene-Stealers.com (Eric Melin)
It proves [the Coens] can hold an audience in thrall with the simplest of cinema's elements: a memorable image. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Scene-Stealers.com (Eric Melin)
The Critical Critics
Itâs that Oscar time of year again when compelling movies get released late so they can remain in the heads of the Academy voters easier. The latest up to bat is No Country For Old Men. Itâs the highly anticipated film by none other than Joel and Etha ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Critical Critics
MovieWeb (Matt Sheehan)
Based on the acclaimed 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy, "No Country for Old Men" is adapted for the screen and directed by the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan. It takes place in 1980 in West Texas near the Mexican border. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at MovieWeb (Matt Sheehan)
Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, is a nail-biting masterpiece of suspense, operating on a philosophical level that is as sophisticated as it is compelling. It takes its tropes and its idioms from classic noirs, but with nary ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
eFilmCritic.com (Rob Gonsalves)
This is the blackest film noir in years. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Rob Gonsalves)
NewsBlaze (Kam Williams)
Javier Bardem steals the show as perhaps the most unnerving screen villain of the year, a monster who ups the ante in terms of tension by holding a cattle gun to his victims' heads while flipping a coin to determine who lives and who dies. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at NewsBlaze (Kam Williams)
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
A top of the line Coen brothers nihilistic chase film that examines a soulless America that can't live with or without violence. It's a film saturated with blood and gore, as it quietly in its sparse but witty dialogue ponders what's gone wrong in the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Film School Rejects (Nate Deen)
A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere. What would you do if stumbled upon a satchel filled with $2 million in drug money? Would you turn it in to the police or would you keep it for yourself? This is the decision that faces Llewelyn Moss (Josh ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Film School Rejects (Nate Deen)
Eye for Film (Amber Wilkinson)
After the purple patch of Fargo, The Big Lebowski and O Brother Where Art Thou, the Coen Brothers seemed to lose their edge slightly, with Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers and The Man Who Wasnât There. No Country For Old Men marks a sharp return to ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Eye for Film (Amber Wilkinson)
efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
The Coens have always penned lively dialogue (âWe felt the institution no longer had anything to offer us,â says John Goodman, justifying his prison break in âRaising Arizonaâ) and demonstrated visual panache (the wood chipper scene in âFargoâ ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
Talking Pictures (UK)
No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothersâ brilliant adaptation of Cormac McCarthyâs bloody lament for a vanished America, hits the ground running. A prisoner, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), turns himself into the police then strangles a Sheriffâs d ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Talking Pictures (UK)
Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
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. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)
This stark and grimly violent tale of humankind's insignificance in the presence of a force it is helpless to control or predict is a morality tale of existential proportions -- and with contemporary implications. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)
The Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
With No Country for Old Men, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing) remind you why they deserve to be ranked among the forefront of American filmmakers. If they also happen to be among the most inconsistent, so be it. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
Cormac McCarthy is considered by many to be America's greatest living author, and Joel and Ethan Coen certainly comprise one of the finest voices in modern filmmaking. Despite that, I don't know if I'd have guessed that the McCarthy/Coen combo would be ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
FirstShowing.net (Ken Evans)
Anticipation for a certain film can sometimes drive you crazy. I have felt that anticipation twice so far this year. The first time was during the months leading up to Spider-Man 3. The problem with all that anticipation is that it also causes your ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at FirstShowing.net (Ken Evans)
The Cinema Source (Shawn Hazelett)
It might seem simple, but Joel and Ethan Coen produce their best work when they create compassion for their characters. The Coen brothersâ signature heavy stylization divides Cinephiles: are their films masterpieces or does style merely compensate for a ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Cinema Source (Shawn Hazelett)
KPBS.org (Beth Accomando)
Let me just say up front what a pleasure it is to watch a well-crafted film in which not a word or a gesture is wasted. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at KPBS.org (Beth Accomando)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
... strong, evocative storytelling pared to the bone and braced with a sensibility perfectly matched to the material. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
Houston Chronicle (Amy Biancolli)
[It] just might be the Coen brothers' singular mythic masterwork. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Houston Chronicle (Amy Biancolli)
FromTheBalcony (Bill Clark)
This is intense, provocative filmmaking on every level that is sure to be one of the best American films of the year. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at FromTheBalcony (Bill Clark)
E! Online (Glenn Gaslin)
The desert is as cold and bleak as McCarthy's view of humanity, so the laughs may not dare even leave your throat. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at E! Online (Glenn Gaslin)
Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
Bardem is nothing less than the best movie villain since Anthony Hopkins slipped out of Hannibal Lecter's manacles, scary-smart and horrifyingly appealing, and Brolin is nothing short of a revelation. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
Detroit News (Tom Long)
A cold, rough look at the dissolution of just about everything. It will bother you afterward. It should. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Detroit News (Tom Long)
Sacramento Bee (Carla Meyer)
Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen build and sustain tension so masterfully throughout this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel that even trouble that's been telegraphed still shocks when it arrives. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Sacramento Bee (Carla Meyer)
Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
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. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
The Coen brothers' best movie, hands down, is a chase film in which all the characters scatter their essences as they run. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Cinepinion (Henry Stewart)
The film's greatest asset...is that the Coens have thankfully dropped their propensity for eccentricity, which has always been their Achilles' Heel as filmmakers. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Cinepinion (Henry Stewart)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Michael Machosky)
The Wild West isn't dead -- if anything, it's getting wilder. Down in the badlands along the border, the blood still flows in hundreds of tributaries toward the Rio Grande.
South Texas always has been a violent place, and the lawmen there always have ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Michael Machosky)
Moviepie.com
The Coen Brothers take a novel approach to No Country for Old Men. And I mean that literallyâthis film is the most novel-like movie I've seen in ages, and, well, author Cormac McCarthy (whose book the film was based on) certainly must be relieved with ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Moviepie.com
Eclipse Magazine (Michelle Alexandria)
While watching it, I kept thinking I have finally seen it - the clear best film of the year, then the film gets to a critical point and literally stops. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Eclipse Magazine (Michelle Alexandria)
Bangitout.com (Jordan Hiller)
No Country is not a film for weak, unsteady hearts. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Bangitout.com (Jordan Hiller)
Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones. He describes a teenage killer he once sent to the chair. The boy had killed his 14-year-old girlfriend. The papers described it as a crime of passion, "but he tolt me there weren't nothin' ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Empire Magazine [UK]
Depending on your take, the Coens have been off their game, under par, or basically crap of late. Of course, the devotee (easy to spot: goateed, bespectacled, Little Lebowski Urban Achievers T-shirt) might posit some notion where they were deliberately ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Empire Magazine [UK]
ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men stars Josh Brolin (sporting the same moustache he's had in his last four films) as Llewelyn Moss, a loser who stumbles onto the scene of a drug deal gone horribly wrong in the Texas desert. He ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
The Guardian (Peter Bradshaw)
The bleak and unforgiving borderlands of Texas by the Rio Grande are the setting for this triumphant new movie by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the western thriller by Cormac McCarthy. It's their best since The Man Who Wasn't There in 2001 - and it's the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Guardian (Peter Bradshaw)
BBC Films
Texas, 1980. Out hunting antelope, Lewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles upon the gory aftermath of a drug deal and decides to make off with the cash. The decision transforms his life into a nightmare of pursuit, as he is hunted across country by the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at BBC Films
eFilmCritic.com (Jay Seaver)
Ah, the suitcase full of money. It's pure temptation, opportunity without responsibility, so long as you can get away with it. Of course, as anyone who has ever seen a movie will tell you, it's almost impossible to do that. Hundreds of movies have likely ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Jay Seaver)
Cinopsis
Texas. Dans un bureau de police, le shérif se fait sauvagement assassiner par l'homme qu'il venait d'arrêter sur la route. Le tueur s'enfuit donc et s'en prend ensuite à un automobiliste pour lui voler sa voiture... La course au meurtrier peut alors ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Cinopsis
Entertainment Insiders (Jonathan W. Hickman)
Floating comfortably into Peckinpah territory, the Coen Brothers bring Cormac McCarthyâs masculine prose to the screen with amazing results. Of course, it helps that they get pitch perfect performances from everyone involved, and, surprisingly, from Jos ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Entertainment Insiders (Jonathan W. Hickman)
Miami Poetry Review (Mitchell Warren)
Joel and Ethan Coen are a dual master workers of cinema. 1996's Fargo somehow won the writer-director siblings mainstream acceptance, despite the fact that they have aggressively campaigned against Hollywood mainstream in practically all of their films. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Miami Poetry Review (Mitchell Warren)
WCBE's It's Movie Time (John DeSando)
A time when drug deals come with multiple murders and amoral operatives is no time for aging 1980 West Texas sheriff, Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) to stay on the job, especially since Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) is murderously determined to retrieve ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at WCBE's It's Movie Time (John DeSando)
Home Theater Info (Doug MacLean)
A lot of movies are referred to with the appellation of âclassicâ. Some even deserve the title and many do not reach this illustrious level in cinema until years after the initial release. This is not the case for the 2007 film âNo Country For Old M ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Home Theater Info (Doug MacLean)
Village Voice (Scott Foundas)
The first time we hear it, it's the out-of-work Vietnam vet Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) whispering optimistically to the antelope he spies through his rifle sight while perched on the crest of a West Texas ridge. A bit later, it's the steely assassin ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Village Voice (Scott Foundas)
The Age
You know you're in the middle of a great suspense thriller when a perfectly judged edit instantly transforms you from observer to participant. In the blink of a frame you are suddenly inside the head of a character where you not only know what they are ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Age
Bronsonfive (Michael Ferraro)
No Country for Old Men is the most brutal cinematic experience of the year, as well as one the best. It's nothing shy of an unforgettable masterpiece. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Bronsonfive (Michael Ferraro)
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) (Greg Maki)
No Country for Old Men is a modern American masterpiece, a film of unbridled power and purpose. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) (Greg Maki)
Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
I treasure movies such as this - movies that put you in a location, allow you to soak up the details, and constantly take you places you don't anticipate going. No Country For Old Men is a masterpiece. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Beaumont Journal (Danny Minton)
Imagine, if you will, that you are on an amazing vacation. One for the ages. Then, on the last day - you are mugged. No matter what transpired before, the trip is tainted. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Beaumont Journal (Danny Minton)
Charlotte Weekly (Sean O'Connell)
An extremely tense exercise. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Charlotte Weekly (Sean O'Connell)
State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (Nick Rogers)
Balloons don't blow into funny shapes, and its narrative direction isn't fairly self-explanatory. Yet to watch it is to gaze at the chilling, pitch-black flipside of "Raising Arizona," and be haunted by penetrating, unflinching stares it gives back. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (Nick Rogers)
Nolan's Pop Culture Review (Michael A. Smith)
Brolin adds another feather in the cap that is 2007. Following outstanding performances in "Grindhouse" and "American Gangster," this film gives him a hat trick of performances that should put him on any director's "A" list. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Nolan's Pop Culture Review (Michael A. Smith)
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (John Wirt)
Joel and Ethan Coen have a great catalog of films behind them, but they paint their masterpiece with No Country For Old Men . ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (John Wirt)
Manhattan Movie Magazine (Marlow Stern)
a genre classic; like a menacing mélange of Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and Cronenberg's A History of Violence " ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Manhattan Movie Magazine (Marlow Stern)
Cinema Crazed (Felix Vasquez Jr.)
An utterly enormous piece of filmmaking... ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Cinema Crazed (Felix Vasquez Jr.)
Sydney Morning Herald (--)
A lot of people die in this movie, some of them horribly, but most of the deaths mean something. They are not thrown away, as in a lot of genre movies. Towards the end, they become appallingly tragic, enough to singe your heart.
That is a real ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Sydney Morning Herald (--)
Appreciating Great Trash (Chris Coleman)
Quietly, assuredly apocalyptic in its reflection upon the wind-swept Hell of Americana, No Country for Old Men has perhaps the most brutal, chilling anti-climax ever filmed, one in which the hero can do little but yield to the continual abjection of ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Appreciating Great Trash (Chris Coleman)
The Stop Button (Andrew Wickliffe)
Thereâs something untranslatable about the last line of a novel. Even though maybe it shouldnât, it essentially sums up everything--not just the scene or the story or the characters, but the readerâs experience as well... (whether the writerâs exp ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Stop Button (Andrew Wickliffe)
Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
In my five years as a critic, I have learned that the best films seek deep into oneâs conscience, witling away at oneâs senses long after one has seen them. It is, in part, my job to come to terms with this: to try to explain the unexplainable, to put ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Perhaps âlostâ is the wrong word. The Coens - Joel and Ethan, sharing screenwriting and directing credit - are never âlostâ here. They are always in full command. But they tell their tale from a few steps back, letting McCarthyâs dark examinatio ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
The Stop Button (Andrew Wickliffe)
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
A Cormac McCarthy horror-mystery with all its ingenuity and without Hollywood compromise. Happily for literature, the movie retains the fright and power of the novel with its shock ending. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
The Globe and Mail
Fate's impassive coin toss, evil's relentless pursuit, the unwise bravado of youth, the sad inadequacy of wisdom â novelist Cormac McCarthy invested all his classic themes into No Country for Old Men, but with a difference. In contrast to the baroquely ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Globe and Mail
Chicago Tribune (Matt Pais)
In 1980 Texas, Vietnam vet Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers $2 million in drug money and quickly finds ruthless mercenary Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) hot on his heels to retrieve the cash. Meanwhile, veteran sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Chicago Tribune (Matt Pais)
Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
"He's a peculiar man," someone says of Javier Bardem's character in No Country for Old Men, the exceptional new movie by Joel and Ethan Coen. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
'NO Country for Old Men" is the first movie I've seen in a very long while that deserves to be called a masterpiece. It's such a stunning achievement in storytelling that, when the DVD ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
Hollywood.com (Brian Marder)
Early on in No Country for Old Men, there is a wide-angle shot of an open field in border-town Texas. Gorgeous but menacing, it is the very snapshot of âcalm before the storm.â One of the men who will momentarily be in the stormâs epicenter, Llewely ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Hollywood.com (Brian Marder)
Boston Globe
On the face of it, "No Country for Old Men" doesn't need to be set in 1980. A stunningly assured piece of moviemaking from the Coen brothers - perhaps their weightiest yet most cleanly crafted work to date - the film unfolds in the parched landscapes and ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Boston Globe
Philadelphia Weekly (Sean Burns)
The simple saga of two tough hombres , a bag of money and everybody unlucky enough to get in their way blossoms into something far more delicate, contemplative and almost mythical. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Philadelphia Weekly (Sean Burns)
Film Freak Central (Walter Chaw)
There aren't any heroes in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men save author Cormac McCarthy. His The Crossing is probably the best American novel since Faulkner was writing in high heather, and Blood Meridian, due as a picture in 2009 with Ridley ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Film Freak Central (Walter Chaw)
eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
The Coens have found the perfect source material to continue their dominance of the crime genre while making a second viewing an absolute must to appreciate all the voices involved. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
rec.arts.movies.reviews (Laura Clifford)
...an elegy for an American way of life that may make liberals side with the old El Paso Sheriff who bemoans today's youth with their drugs and green hair. It's a Texan lament not heard since The Last Picture Show. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (Laura Clifford)
Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
The film is as lean and mean as a barbed-wire necktie, darkly funny and much deeper than the average crime thriller. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
UR Chicago Magazine (Mark Dujsik)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
No Country for Old Men is as good a film as the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, have ever made, and they made Fargo . ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
MovieFreak.com (Sara M. Fetters)
Indeed, within the framework of this film it truly is no country for old men, and as that harsh realization presents itself the only emotion left is a form of quietly overpowering devastation. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at MovieFreak.com (Sara M. Fetters)
One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Bleak but beautiful, and with characteristic Coen shafts of gallows humor,...about as perfect as a film can get...a shocking and mesmerizing experience. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
This measured yet excitingly tense, violent yet maturely sorrowful thriller marks the first time the filmmakers have faithfully adapted somebody else's work to their own specifications and considerable strengths. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Film Scouts (Jason Gorber)
This is a film that pulls no punches - it's brutal, violent and at times perverse. It is almost sadistic in how it removes all sense of catharsis from the audience, yet does so with such grace and efficiency that you're constantly shaking your head in ama ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Film Scouts (Jason Gorber)
Reel.com (Pam Grady)
This is one of [the Coens'] best films, yet, its indelible images resonating long after the final credits roll. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Reel.com (Pam Grady)
Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Audience members who found previous Coen brothers' works too precious can rejoice in this, their best film--close to an American masterwork. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Brilliant from first frame to last, this faithful adaptation of McCarthy's novel is the Coen brothers best film to date, an undisputed masterpiece that's mesmerizing as chase thriller and meditation on the roots and nature of violence in American life. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Modern Fabulousity (Gabriel Shanks)
Like The Crying Game , Pulp Fiction and other films that shift paradigms in mid-stream, there's more happening than meets the eye....Stark and spare, it's often a gasp-inducing, armrest-clutching experience. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Modern Fabulousity (Gabriel Shanks)
New York Post (Kyle Smith)
A dust-bowl "Pulp Fiction," the movie is bloody, suspenseful, unnerving and, not incidentally, hilarious. The best Coen Bros. drama, without the twitchy mannerisms of "Fargo." ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at New York Post (Kyle Smith)
ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
The Coen Brothers have gotten their mojo back with the help of Cormac McCarthy. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)
The most searing film I've seen this year. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)
Eye for Film (Amber Wilkinson)
Against the whisper of wind and buzz of flies, the Coens manage to find tension in the subtlest of movements and cut the dialogue through with humour as arid as the landscape. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Eye for Film (Amber Wilkinson)
Globe and Mail (--)
Written almost exclusively in taut dialogue, the book already reads like a screenplay, and the Coen brothers have taken full advantage. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Globe and Mail (--)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Misguided souls will tell you that No Country for Old Men is out for blood, focused on vengeance and unconcerned with the larger world outside a standard-issue suspense plot. Those people, of course, are deaf, dumb and blind to anything that isn't ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Foote on Film (John H. Foote)
They are two of the most original voices in American independent cinema. The brothers Coen, Ethan and Joel have been delighting audiences since their debut film Blood Simple (1985), which announced their bizarre style of merging their own unique brand of ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Foote on Film (John H. Foote)
Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
"There ain't no stoppin' what's comin'." We hear this phrase multiple times during "No Country for Old Men," Joel and Ethan Coenâs hypnotic adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel. And boy howdy is it true. Mr. McCarthyâs story of a small-time West ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
Long the merry pranksters of the cinema, the Coens have given irony a vacation. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
IGN Movies (Todd Gilchrist)
Most audiences will look at the film and see only the simple plot of a fugitive and his two pursuers, but is there more being said and more being asked within the wide open spaces of No Country for Old Men ? Indisputably. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at IGN Movies (Todd Gilchrist)
efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)
The Coens have left all their tricks and ironic jokery behind and the resulting film feels deeper and more personally felt than anything they have done before. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)
Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)
The hype was right. No Country for Old Men is basically flawless. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)
RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)
Whatâs truly impressive about No Country for Old Men is the mistakes it doesnât make. So many movies come out average â and they all do it the exact same way. Overly sappy, predictable, impatient, unrealistic, the routes to movie mediocrity are done ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)
Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)
The Coens return to form, creating their most idiosyncratic characters since Steve Buscemi's Carl Showalter faced down the wood chipper in Fargo. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Philadelphia Daily News (Gary Thompson)
THE DOOMED folks in "No Country For Old Men" struggle to find words to explain the relentless embodiment of evil who stalks them across the Texas plains.
But it's not so hard, really - any dude who can reach adulthood with a haircut that bad has to be ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Philadelphia Daily News (Gary Thompson)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Life ainât fair. Be it the sudden, unexpected death of a loved one to your boss crapping all over your cushy job by dropping a ton of busy work on you at the last second on a Friday, itâs all just not fair. But itâs also the way things go and ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Filmjerk.com (Brian Orndorf)
Joel and Ethan Coen have spent their career crafting stylish, visceral tales of crime, fixated on the aftermath of bad decisions. "No Country for Old Men" is a near-perfect summation of that pursuit; a whip-smart, fingernail-chewing creation that ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Filmjerk.com (Brian Orndorf)
Wall Street Journal (--)
This is the best film the Coen brothers have done since their glory days of Fargo and The Big Lebowski , maybe the best they've done, period. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Wall Street Journal (--)
Film Freak Central
Consider the moment when an overly enthusiastic police search results in the demolition of a replica dresser commissioned by Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) for the Carolina plantation he's bought to house his extended family. In one ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Film Freak Central
hybridmagazine.com
No Country for Old Men is a different sort of Coen Brothersâ movie. Conspicuously absent are the quirky conversations, offbeat personas, and the, you know, funny looking actors. In their place are nail-biting tension, graphic violence, and social ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at hybridmagazine.com
Orlando Weekly (Cole Haddon)
Itâs been six years and two movies since the Coen brothers directed a feature that didnât embarrass the memory of everything else theyâve ever made, but, with No Country for Old Men, the writing-directing duo are back to old form. In many ways the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Orlando Weekly (Cole Haddon)
TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
A masterpiece of a thriller, as merciless as a livestock stun gun to the head, as sharp as a razor blade, and as confidently written as any genre classic one can think of (take your pick). ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
Onion AV Club (Keith Phipps)
No Country For Old Men bears McCarthy's unmistakable stamp, and the equally unmistakable mark of filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, making a strong return after a few years off. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Onion AV Club (Keith Phipps)
Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
It thunders with the mordant wit, blood-soaked pessimism, and human folly that mark their unique auteurial stamp. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
eFilmCritic.com (Brian Orndorf)
A whip-smart, fingernail-chewing creation that crackles with tension and is pocked with thrilling incarnations of evil. It makes the standard-issue nightmare seem like a tropical vacation. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Brian Orndorf)
Contra Costa Times (Mary F. Pols)
There isn't a performance in this film that isn't exquisitely in key or a frame in this film that doesn't feel right. At times, the movie deliberately leaves us grasping to understand what we've seen. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Contra Costa Times (Mary F. Pols)
Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Vietnam vet Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) travels the vast Texas plain poaching deer when he comes upon the remains of a remote, violent shootout. He finds a bunch of bodies, one man dying, a pickup truck stuffed with Mexican heroin and a set of ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Movie-Vault.com (LaRae Meadows)
No Country for Old Men introduces us to ruthless killer Anton Chigurh and his gruesome air gun. A fascinating murder, phenomenal writing, and obvious attention to the visual details, No Country for Old Men is a truly adult horror drama.
Anton ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Movie-Vault.com (LaRae Meadows)
Cinema Blend
On a sunny, hot afternoon in West Texas, a hunter named Llewelyn Moss tracks a deer across a remote stretch of prairie, stumbling upon the remnants of a bloody gun battle between warring drug cartels. There in the middle of nowhere he finds bodies, ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Cinema Blend
Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
In many ways, it seems like the Coen brothers are aiming to go back to the "Fargo" well here. Switch the snowy Midwest for dusty West Texas, and you'll have a good sense of what "No Country for Old Men" is like. You have a protagonist who schemes his way ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)
...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 ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)
Monsters and Critics (Ron Wilkinson)
Tommy Lee Jones combines forces with the Coen Brothers in the unforgiving winds of the West Texas prairie. Javier Barden's psycho-killer and the Coens' creepy direction and screenwriting pops out the grittiest film of the year.