No Country for Old Men

Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel is an indisputably great movie, at this point the year's very best. more

Many of the scenes in No Country for Old Men are so flawlessly constructed that you want them to simply continue, and yet they create an emotional suction drawing you to the next scene. Another movie that made me feel that way was "Fargo." To make one such film is a miracle. Here is another. more

A model of pitch and modulation and craft. For two hours, the Coens hold you in their grip so tightly that for long stretches it feels a little hard to breathe. more

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. more

Feels positively Greek in its magnitude, a lament about fate, age, time and life. more

The Coens also understand the stark immediacy of this tale, and they visualize it with brilliantly judged details. more

As stomach-churning a suspense exercise as the cinema has seen since the salad days of Hitchcock. more

The Coen brothers adaptation is impeccable, a perfect mirror of McCarthy's prose – sparse, suspenseful, probing and profoundly disturbing. more

A return to form for the Coen Brothers and, while I feel the film will annoy and frustrate the masses, it will be looked back upon as one of the truly great movies of the first part of this new decade. more

Violent, poetic, gripping, thrilling and blackly funny: that'll be the Coens doing what they do best then. Now with added humanity. more

A great movie with some fine actors especially Javier Bardem who I have not seen in anything before. He has a certain screen presence and voice that is perfect for this role. A simple plot about a man on the run after finding two million dollars at a drug deal gone bad in the desert, only problem is the ultimate bad ass killer really wants it back! For me this felt like a modern day western which is very intense and well directed. It does have some strange moments and throws up questions about violence, bad people and bad times along the way. I just thought the ending could have been... more

I LOVED IT. I was expecting (when I watched the great previews) a masterpiece from No Country For Old Men. And it totally is ! Let's start with Ethan and Joel Cohen's imaginative, scary cleverness in their screenplay. And their direction. The Cohens have officially taken a great place in my love for movies. Tommy Lee Jones was amazing, but I must mention Javier Bardem's performance, for which he completely deserves an Oscar nomination. What can I say about his character if it is not that he is one of the greatest bad guys in the cinema history ? No Country For Old Men is perfrect. I... more

"You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity." Even if No Country for Old Men didn't have gorgeous cinematography, excellent pacing, a near perfect script, and an absolutely perfect cast, I still would have loved it for its tone. It's the most similar movie to Fargo that the Coens have done, and the similar theme of implacable and unfathomable violence in a rural American area (once again initiated by money) is one of the main reasons why I love the Coens so much. The breathtaking, empty setting of south Texas is a seamless compliment to the measured pace of... more

This is a movie that is well deserving of its praise and honestly deserves more. This is the first time that the Coen Brothers have returned to something like Blood Simple, but this is obviously more well polished and exclusive to their style. Combined with a great Western-Noir story and extremely interesting characters, you really can't fail to see the beauty. Anton Chigurh is just one of those characters that is so memorable and unique that no one will ever forget him. However, I really have to say that Josh Brolin gave the most impressive performance. From where he came from and his... more

It's vastly gripping, powerful and electrifying all the way through. It's sizzling and super-charged. An intense, engaging and breathtaking movie. A brilliant and heart-pounding thriller. It's a fierce, flawless, mesmerizing, original, terrifying and outstanding crime-thriller of the best kind. Definitely the best film made by the Coen Brothers. They take their game to a whole new level and do not disappoint. Captivating, riveting and freighting. A masterpiece. One of the great crime classics of the twenty first century. Smartly written and superbly shot. Utterly exciting and exhilarating.... more

If Alfred Hitchcock was still alive he would have made No Country For Old Men. The classic story of a man that, in the midst of the daily grind, ends up walking into a situation beyond what he thought he would experience that morning. Then he has to face the consequences of all of it. In No Country For Old Men Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles on the remains of a shootout while hunting. As curiosity gets the better of him and he begins to examine the scene he discovers a briefcase full of money. Being the human being that he is, he takes the money and a pistol home and causes the... more