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No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Hollywood.com (Brian Marder)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 “calm before the storm.” One of the men who will momentarily be in the storm’s epicenter, Llewely ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Hollywood.com (Brian Marder)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Onion AV Club (Keith Phipps)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Contra Costa Times (Mary F. Pols)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Michael Machosky)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Talking Pictures (UK)Talking Pictures (UK)
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 Talking Pictures (UK)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
The Coens have always penned lively dialogue (“We felt the institution no longer had anything to offer us,” says John Goodman, justifying his prison break in “Raising Arizona”) and demonstrated visual panache (the wood chipper scene in “Fargo” ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Wall Street Journal (--)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 (--)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Film Freak CentralFilm 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
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Daily News (Gary Thompson)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Eye for Film (Amber Wilkinson)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 Wasn’t 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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Film School Rejects (Nate Deen)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (Brian Orndorf)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Moviepie.comMoviepie.com
The Coen Brothers take a novel approach to No Country for Old Men. And I mean that literally—this 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
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Bronsonfive (Michael Ferraro)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Boston GlobeBoston 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
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (Nick Rogers)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Weekly (Sean Burns)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Charlotte Weekly (Sean O'Connell)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Film Freak Central (Walter Chaw)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for rec.arts.movies.reviews (Laura Clifford)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Beaumont Journal (Danny Minton)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for UR Chicago Magazine (Mark Dujsik)UR Chicago Magazine (Mark Dujsik)
This is a masterpiece. ...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 4.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for MovieFreak.com (Sara M. Fetters)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for IGN Movies (Todd Gilchrist)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Palo Alto Online (Jeanne Aufmuth)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for NewsBlaze (Kam Williams)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (Rob Gonsalves)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for The Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Cinepinion (Henry Stewart)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Sacramento Bee (Carla Meyer)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Detroit News (Tom Long)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for E! Online (Glenn Gaslin)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for FromTheBalcony (Bill Clark)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for FirstShowing.net (Ken Evans)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for The Cinema Source (Shawn Hazelett)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 brothers’ 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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for KPBS.org (Beth Accomando)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Orlando Weekly (Cole Haddon)Orlando Weekly (Cole Haddon)
It’s been six years and two movies since the Coen brothers directed a feature that didn’t embarrass the memory of everything else they’ve 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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)
What’s truly impressive about No Country for Old Men is the mistakes it doesn’t make. So many movies come out average – 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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for MovieWeb (Matt Sheehan)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Filmjerk.com (Brian Orndorf)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for The Critical CriticsThe Critical Critics
It’s 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. It’s 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
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for hybridmagazine.com hybridmagazine.com
No Country for Old Men is a different sort of Coen Brothers’ 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
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Scene-Stealers.com (Eric Melin)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie VoiceFilm Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Life ain’t 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, it’s all just not fair. But it’s also the way things go and ...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 4.00 out of 4 stars for Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Film School Rejects (H. Stewart)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 you’re 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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Houston Chronicle (Amy Biancolli)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for The AgeThe 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
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Eclipse Magazine (Michelle Alexandria)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Village Voice (Scott Foundas)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Entertainment Insiders (Jonathan W. Hickman)Entertainment Insiders (Jonathan W. Hickman)
Floating comfortably into Peckinpah territory, the Coen Brothers bring Cormac McCarthy’s 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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Foote on Film (John H. Foote)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)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 Coen’s hypnotic adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel. And boy howdy is it true. Mr. McCarthy’s story of a small-time West ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Miami Poetry Review (Mitchell Warren)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Eye for Film (Amber Wilkinson)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Perhaps “lost” is the wrong word. The Coens - Joel and Ethan, sharing screenwriting and directing credit - are never “lost” here. They are always in full command. But they tell their tale from a few steps back, letting McCarthy’s dark examinatio ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Reel.com (Pam Grady)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Bangitout.com (Jordan Hiller)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
Creepy time down south. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Modern Fabulousity (Gabriel Shanks)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for New York Post (Kyle Smith)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for BBC FilmsBBC 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
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (Jay Seaver)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Cinopsis 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
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for The Guardian (Peter Bradshaw)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Globe and Mail (--)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 (--)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Empire Magazine [UK]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]
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Film Scouts (Jason Gorber)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
In my five years as a critic, I have learned that the best films seek deep into one’s conscience, witling away at one’s 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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for New York Post (Lou Lumenick)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (John Wirt)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for WCBE's It's Movie Time (John DeSando)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for The Globe and MailThe Globe and Mail
Fate's impassive coin toss, evil's relentless pursuit, the unwise bravado of youth, the sad inadequacy of wisdom – 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
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Nolan's Pop Culture Review (Michael A. Smith)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Reel.comReel.com
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No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for The Stop Button (Andrew Wickliffe)The Stop Button (Andrew Wickliffe)
...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Stop Button (Andrew Wickliffe)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) (Greg Maki)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Matt Pais)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Toronto Star (Peter Howell)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Manhattan Movie Magazine (Marlow Stern)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Appreciating Great Trash (Chris Coleman)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Sydney Morning Herald (--)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 (--)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Home Theater Info (Doug MacLean)Home Theater Info (Doug MacLean)
A lot of movies are referred to with the appellation of ‘classic’. 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 ‘No Country For Old M ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Home Theater Info (Doug MacLean)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for The Stop Button (Andrew Wickliffe)The Stop Button (Andrew Wickliffe)
There’s something untranslatable about the last line of a novel. Even though maybe it shouldn’t, it essentially sums up everything--not just the scene or the story or the characters, but the reader’s experience as well... (whether the writer’s exp ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Stop Button (Andrew Wickliffe)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Cinema Crazed (Felix Vasquez Jr.)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.)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Cinema BlendCinema 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
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Movie-Vault.com (LaRae Meadows)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.72 out of 4 stars for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)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)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for SoundtrackNet (Dan Goldwasser)SoundtrackNet (Dan Goldwasser)
No Country for Old Men lets the Coen Brothers explore the human condition much like they did in Fargo, and the result is a somewhat violent but excellent film. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at SoundtrackNet (Dan Goldwasser)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
If you are a Coen Brothers fan like me, run, don't walk to your local theater to see their latest film. It has all of the delicious ingredients we have come to expect from them. It has the drama of a Greek tragedy, flashes of howling humor, over the top ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
No Country for Old Men unfolds like a combination of several previous movies from the Coen Brothers. It boasts the Texas setting and unnerving quiet of Blood Simple; it features a local law enforcer slowly tracing the clues to a major transgression ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for DVDActive (Gabriel Powers)DVDActive (Gabriel Powers)
...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at DVDActive (Gabriel Powers)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)
A terrific return to form on a par with Fargo and other Coen classics. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (Jeffrey Chen)ReelTalk Movie Reviews (Jeffrey Chen)
It's a localized scenario, but what the movie skillfully does is increase its philosophical scale ever so slowly. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at ReelTalk Movie Reviews (Jeffrey Chen)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Monsters and Critics (Ron Wilkinson)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. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Monsters and Critics (Ron Wilkinson)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for musicOMH (Richard Ings)musicOMH (Richard Ings)
The brothers' chosen form this time is the chase thriller, a genre mastered by Alfred Hitchcock, among others. Trying to take on the masters of the convention and matching them is no mean feat – pinning them to the ground like some steer wrestler and ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at musicOMH (Richard Ings)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
Here’s the thing about Joel and Ethan Coen: they can make anything, absolutely anything, intensely profound and deeply weird -- and weirdly deep -- and cruelly magnificent all at the same time. Skip back past their recent fluff -- not that Intolerable ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for The Denver PostThe Denver Post
In "No Country for Old Men," a wind blows, unabated by tree, building or much else. Depending, you might describe the sound as hungering or indifferent. But before any image arrives to help you decide comes a voice that has as much texture as the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Denver Post
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Comingsoon.netComingsoon.net
Except for a short segment in the recent anthology "Paris je t'aime," The Coen Brothers have been out of action since 2004's failed remake of "The Ladykillers," but their return with this stark thriller based on Cormac McCarthy's novel should more than ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Comingsoon.net
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Jam! MoviesJam! Movies
It is brutal. It is bad-ass brilliant. The Coen Brothers' lacerating new age western, No Country For Old Men, is a portrait of violence in 20th century rural America. Set in the southwest in 1980 and smart as the dickens, No Country is a literate film ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Jam! Movies
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for The New Zealand Herald (Peter Calder)The New Zealand Herald (Peter Calder)
They have given us the ridiculous (The Ladykillers and The Hudsucker Proxy) and the sublime (Fargo and The Big Lebowski). The Coen brothers' newest is their best yet. Adapting the 2005 novel by the master of southwestern gothic, Cormac McCarthy, with ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The New Zealand Herald (Peter Calder)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Geoff Berkshire)Chicago Tribune (Geoff Berkshire)
When unassuming local Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) happens upon several dead bodies, a load of heroin and two million dollars in the middle of the Texas desert, he takes the money and runs. That sets off a deadly game of cat and mouse involving vicious ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Chicago Tribune (Geoff Berkshire)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for New York Press (Armond White)New York Press (Armond White)
Deeper, funnier and even stranger than Fargo . ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at New York Press (Armond White)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for The Deadbolt (Brian Tallerico)The Deadbolt (Brian Tallerico)
You may see films you like better in 2007, but you're unlikely to see one more memorable. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Deadbolt (Brian Tallerico)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for ReelViews (James Berardinelli)ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Expecting normalcy from a Coen Brothers production is a pointless endeavor, but anticipating brilliance isn't outlandish. Their latest feature, which has about zero box office potential, provides plenty of the latter and a little of the former. It’s ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Arctic Shores Contemporary Reviews (Bob Miller)Arctic Shores Contemporary Reviews (Bob Miller)
Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem ) in No Country for Old Men is probably Satan incarnate. What’s interesting about this particular personification of evil is that Satan (much like Jehovah in the Old Testament) is a strict moralist that keeps all of his ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Arctic Shores Contemporary Reviews (Bob Miller)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Long Island Press (Prairie Miller)Long Island Press (Prairie Miller)
A brash, biblical and even comical neo-Western where cowpokes trade in lassos for Uzi's along the Tex-Mex border. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Long Island Press (Prairie Miller)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles CityBeat (Andy Klein)Los Angeles CityBeat (Andy Klein)
... edge-of-the-seat suspenseful. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Los Angeles CityBeat (Andy Klein)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
This anti-Western set in the dusty southwest is pretty good for the first two acts, but burns out well before the end. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for USA Today (Claudia Puig)USA Today (Claudia Puig)
No Country for Old Men is suspenseful, bleak and haunting. Nothing about it is life-affirming, yet one can't help but be uplifted by the mesmerizing quality of the filmmaking and the masterful performances. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at USA Today (Claudia Puig)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 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. Only “Fargo” is more satisfying (it’s also a comedy, which this one isn’t), certainly among the brothers’ pictures driven by the evil ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)
The Coens are geniuses at creating tension through editing. No Country has craft and atmosphere aplenty. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for The Arizona Republic The Arizona Republic
Javier Bardem has been outstanding in such films as The Sea Inside and Before Night Falls, but as a killer without a conscience in the Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men, he is chilling. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Arizona Republic
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Film Monthly (Del Harvey)Film Monthly (Del Harvey)
I may just be in the minority here, but I found lots to dislike about No Country for Old Men, the thirteenth and latest film from the brothers Coen. The tagline reads, “There are no clean getaways.” Perhaps it should read, “No one gets out alive. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Film Monthly (Del Harvey)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Just Press PlayJust Press Play
After many forgettable recent tries by the Coen Brothers—who together have a filmography that is peerless in terms of maintaining a signature style in a wide array of films—they finally hit another bullseye that is easily their best since the much-lov ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Just Press Play
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
Aside from that, No Country for Old Men is a compelling beating-sun, open-space crime noir. It strays admirably from predictability, and its departures have meaning and bite. It's a contemplation on the loss of decency in a violent society, and the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for <<dnb@dca.net>> <<dnb@dca.net>>
As I wrote in my May 31st review of the omnibus film "Paris, Je T'aime," to which Joel and Ethan Coen contributed a worthy 5-minute piece (with Steve Buscemi), "...the Coens prove that less is definitely more--their segment is more entertaining than ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at <<dnb@dca.net>>
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Screen Rant (Vic Holtreman)Screen Rant (Vic Holtreman)
I went into No Country For Old Men only knowing that everyone has been talking about how excellent it is, but not really knowing too much about the plot. As it turns out, it was different from even what little I thought I knew about it. Going into a ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Screen Rant (Vic Holtreman)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
The Coen Brothers (Paris I Love You, The Ladykillers) head back to the genre that broke them into movies by creating another great film very much in the vein of their debut feature, Blood Simple, full of greed, murder, dirty dealings, and a teeming dose ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for rec.arts.movies.reviews (David N. Butterworth)rec.arts.movies.reviews (David N. Butterworth)
With "No Country for Old Men," the brothers Coen return to Texas--and to form. As I wrote in my May 31st review of the omnibus film "Paris, Je T'aime," to which Joel and Ethan Coen contributed a worthy 5-minute piece (with Steve Buscemi), ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (David N. Butterworth)
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 3.25 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 3.20 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 3.20 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 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 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 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 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)
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 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 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 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 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 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 3.04 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2.80 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 2.75 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 2.75 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2.50 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
It is 1980 is Southwest Texas near the Mexican border. As the film opens we are listening to the voice of Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (played by Tommy Lee Jones) telling of some killers he has known. He is weary of his job and probably as weary of the world. He ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Variety (Todd McCarthy)Variety (Todd McCarthy)
Reduced to its barest bones, the story, set in 1980, is a familiar one of a busted drug deal and the violent wages of one man's misguided attempt to make off with ill-gotten gains. But writing in marvelous Texas vernacular that injected surpassing ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Variety (Todd McCarthy)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)
In "No Country For Old Men," the Coen brothers do for the chase movie what Picasso did for portraiture, investing it with a whole new geometry and a brutal beauty. The movie achieves a kind of non-linear narrative perfection, a chase in which the bad guy ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Santa Fe ReporterSanta Fe Reporter
No Country is by turns a black comedy, a crime drama, a Western revenge, an existential adventure and a horror movie. So many genre expectations are dispensed that the audience never has firm ground on which to stand. And it’s the plenitude—not only o ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Santa Fe Reporter
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Urban Cinefile (Urban Cinefile Critics)Urban Cinefile (Urban Cinefile Critics)
It's the unexpected nature of the characters and what happens to them that makes this return to form from the Coen Brothers both intriguing and satisfying. There's bloody violence countered by black humour, and just when you thought you knew what the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Urban Cinefile (Urban Cinefile Critics)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Film Monthly (Andrew Dowd)Film Monthly (Andrew Dowd)
George Bernard Shaw once wrote "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." The Coen Brothers would likely agree. In the films of Joel and Ethan, those oddball, sibling auteurs from Minnesota, ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Film Monthly (Andrew Dowd)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for rec.arts.movies.reviews (Louis Proyect)rec.arts.movies.reviews (Louis Proyect)
Many critics describe it as a return to the halcyon days of “Fargo” and they are partially correct. Like “Fargo,” “No Country for Old Men” exploits local color–in this case the laconic twang of West Texas. Unlike “Fargo”–unfortunatelyâ ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (Louis Proyect)
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
It is 1980 is Southwest Texas near the Mexican border. As the film opens we are listening to the voice of Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (played by Tommy Lee Jones) telling of some killers he has known. He is weary of his job and probably as weary of the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Planet Sick-Boy (Jon Popick)Planet Sick-Boy (Jon Popick)
The race for this year's Oscar officially starts with this Coen brothers adaptation of punctuation-hating novelist Cormac McCarthy's (All the Pretty Horses) True Romance-ish tale of an average Llewelyn (Josh Brolin) who randomly happens upon a gristly ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Planet Sick-Boy (Jon Popick)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for CinemaBlend.com (Katey Rich)CinemaBlend.com (Katey Rich)
As desolate and dark as the west Texas landscape in which it’s set, the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is no film for the weak-hearted, either. An admitted weakling when it comes to suspense (see my review of fellow film festival honoree The ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at CinemaBlend.com (Katey Rich)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Chiranjit Goswami)Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Chiranjit Goswami)
At the risk of sounding ridiculous and squandering whatever small amount of respect I might have accumulated thus far, I have to say that I sometimes actually feel sorry for successful American filmmakers, even when they are funded by the ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Chiranjit Goswami)
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 Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer)Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer)
The Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel, have done an amazing thing with Cormac McCarthy's novel "No Country for Old Men." Unlike the mediocre work by Billy Bob Thornton in "All the Pretty Horses," where Thornton let the movie slide away into romance and ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Preview Family Movie ReviewPreview Family Movie Review
Now, this is a scary movie. Films such as the Friday the 13th franchise never really spooked me. But a film where we see a real-life monster, that’s unnerving. In the news the other day I heard that a young woman answered an ad to baby-sit. When she ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Preview Family Movie Review
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for The Times of LondonThe Times of London
No Country for Old Men is the most violent and infuriating film Joel and Ethan Coen have made. It’s a clever adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy story about the cruel indifference of the American west. The title is a warning that old-fashioned values no ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The Times of London
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for New York Observer (Andrew Sarris)New York Observer (Andrew Sarris)
Two of the darkest death-driven films of the 45th New York Film Festival are both American works directed by filmmakers who, though no strangers to noirish projects in the past, have attained new heights, or is it depths, of malignancy and morbidity, ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at New York Observer (Andrew Sarris)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Cinematical (James Rocchi)Cinematical (James Rocchi)
An ordinary man stumbles across a ring of corpses surrounding a fortune in cash and a mountain of heroin. A bad man follows in search of the money; a good man follows in search of the man. This is the set-up for the newest film from Joel and Ethan Coen, ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Cinematical (James Rocchi)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Film e Dvd Film e Dvd
“Non è un paese per vecchi” è uno dei film meglio riusciti ai fratelli Coen (qui anche sceneggiatori). Un thriller tratto dal romanzo omonimo di Cormac McCarthy (2005), che supera però i confini del genere per elevarsi a parabola sul potere del Mal ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Film e Dvd
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Screen International (--)Screen International (--)
The elegiac evocation of a changing American heartland in moral meltdown is deftly handled but there are reservations about pacing and balance that prevent the film from achieving the greatness that sometimes seems within its grasp. It is almost as if ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Screen International (--)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brad Lowenberg)Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brad Lowenberg)
...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brad Lowenberg)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Times [UK] (James Christopher)Times [UK] (James Christopher)
In a sense, the film is a lament for old certainties which are cruelly swept aside, perhaps purged would be more accurate, by Bardem’s extraordinary monster. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Times [UK] (James Christopher)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Pop Syndicate (Stefan Halley)Pop Syndicate (Stefan Halley)
I wouldn't call it the Coen's best, or even the year's best, but it is significant and worth your time. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Pop Syndicate (Stefan Halley)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
...mine is a minority report, a mere counterpoint to the flood of good news you'll hear from most everyone else. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for About.com (Marcy Dermansky)About.com (Marcy Dermansky)
While No Country For Old Men is compelling from beginning to end, the film lacks soul. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at About.com (Marcy Dermansky)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for IGN Movies (Filip Vukcevic)IGN Movies (Filip Vukcevic)
No Country For Old Men is a strong addition to the Coen Bros. shelf and will certainly please fans of crime stories while exciting action aficionados. And both groups will chuckle more than once. ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at IGN Movies (Filip Vukcevic)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for The New York Sun (Allen Barra)The New York Sun (Allen Barra)
With "No Country for Old Men," they seem to think that by making us feel the skull fragments splattered on our clothes we've somehow experienced ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at The New York Sun (Allen Barra)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Ciné-club de Caen (Jean-Luc Lacuve)Ciné-club de Caen (Jean-Luc Lacuve)
Les vastes pleines du Texas au petit matin. La voix off du shérif s'attriste d'avoir dû dénoncer un jeune gars qui aurait pu être condamné pour meurtre passionnel mais qu'il a conduit à la chaise électrique en répétant ses propos sur son envie de ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Ciné-club de Caen (Jean-Luc Lacuve)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for New York Observer (Rex Reed)New York Observer (Rex Reed)
Losing their customary cool, some critics are labeling No Country for Old Men, a modern western with pokey pacing and blood-curdling violence, a masterpiece. Until the five-minute finale that threatens to destroy the whole thing, I found myself dazed, ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at New York Observer (Rex Reed)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Movies for Guys (Alex DeLarge)Movies for Guys (Alex DeLarge)
I hate being pissed off at a movie. I really do. I’d much rather it just simply suck so that I can just dislike it or, at worst, have contempt for it. But in this case the Coen brothers have really managed to piss me off. If I ever wrote a book entitled ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Movies for Guys (Alex DeLarge)
No Country for Old Men (2007) scores a combined 1.00 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 1.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Remorseless murder isn’t all there is to No Country for Old Men, but it’s all anyone seems to care ...read the complete No Country for Old Men movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
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by cory on February 13, 2009 Ogden, Utah
Whether or not you like No Country for Old Men depends a bit if you can appreciate the artistic thought that has gone into the film. It is thought provoking and very exciting at its high points. When I first saw this movie advertised, it looked to me ...
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