No Country for Old Men (2007)
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Reviews Counted:221
Fresh:208
Rotten:13
Average Rating:8.5/10
Consensus: Another triumph for the Coen Brothers, No Country has the perfect mixture of suspense, humor, and desperately compelling performances. The seemingly simple story hides a more complex narrative, and high tension is maintained throughout.
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Drugs, Suspense, Thriller, Murder, Theatrical Release, Serial Killers, Money
Theatrical Release:18-01-2008
Synopsis: With NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, the Coen Brothers have found a perfect match in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy. Their adaptation of McCarthy's praised novel is a staggering masterpiece.... [More]
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly MacDonald
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Reviews for No Country for Old Men
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 3/5 |
Sure to wow the critics, but no movie for the masses. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Virtuoso. A film of pin-sharp principles, cross-hair precision and suffocating tension, this Coens stunner hits like a cattle gun between the eyes. Full Review |
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Is it a masterpiece? Not even close. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Watching this film has something of the elemental thrill of watching a cloud-shadow spread with miraculous speed over a vast, empty landscape: it has a chilly, portentous intuition of what America is. Full Review |
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5/5 |
With its sly wit, dark intelligence and tense action sequences this film re-establishes the Coens as two of American cinema's most talented directors. It's also the best adaptation of McCarthy's work to date and an unmissable crime movie. Full Review |
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5/5 |
The Coen brothers have once again placed themselves at the very forefront of American cinema. Full Review |
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5/6 |
A masterly tale of the good, the deranged and the doomed that inflects the raw violence of the west with a wry acknowledgement of the demise of codes of honour, this is frighteningly intelligent and imaginative. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Violent, poetic, gripping, thrilling and blackly funny: that’ll be the Coens doing what they do best then. Now with added humanity. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Terrifically acted, superbly written and masterfully directed by the Coen Brothers, this is an incredibly suspenseful thriller that looks set for Oscar glory come February. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
The Coens load the film with realistic touches that add grit and meaning to the almost mythical plot. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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There is a positively chilling performance from Javier Bardem as an embodiment of human evil to match Dennis Hopper's memorable turn in Blue Velvet. Full Review |
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The decade's most overrated movie Full Review |
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5/5 |
Once you open Pandora's Box, there's simply no stopping the beasts that pour out. Full Review |
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4/5 |
What starts off as the best Charles Bronson movie not to star Charles Bronson ends up as a literary adaptation of a novel that thinks it means something or other. Full Review |
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3/4 |
No Country for Old Men is the brothers at their most polished, austere, and humorless. Full Review |
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5.0/5 |
When you see No Country for Old Men, leave your preconceptions at home. But bring your Alfred Hitchcock lenses. They're useful. No Country for Old Men is a dazzling time-bomb of a movie. It is an engrossing, brutal, nerve-wracking moral tale Full Review |
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For a film that traffics in implacable malice, this movie remains remarkably grounded in the everyday. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
This is some of Brolin's best work to date, though the film still belongs to Bardem and Jones, whose low-key mannerisms are well-suited to the Coens' sensibilities. Full Review |
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McCarthy's ferocious tale gives the Coens room to unleash their cinematic gifts, but keeps them from wandering too far afield and losing themselves in the marshes of technical prowess or easy irony. Full Review |
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