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No Country for Old Men

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

2007

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Kelly MacDonald ...

7.2

113,286

Thriller. Drama Set along a bloody frontier in our own time, this film is based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and over two million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim’s burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes that ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A superior match of source material and filmmaking talent (...) Result is one of the [Coens'] very best films (...) A total visual and aural pleasure."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"An indisputably great movie (...) [Bardem] is stupendous in the role, a monster for the ages. Beneath his dark eyes lies something darker, evil topped with the cherry of perverse humor (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This movie is a masterful evocation of time, place, character, moral choices, immoral certainties, human nature and fate. It is also (...) startlingly beautiful, stark and lonely. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Ray Bennett The Hollywood Reporter	"Joel and Ethan Coen's typically superior filmmaking sustains the electrifying mood for most of the picture, but they are undone by being too faithful to the source novel by Cormac McCarthy"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"For formalists — those moviegoers sent into raptures by tight editing, nimble camera work and faultless sound design — it’s pure heaven. (...) leaves behind the jangled, stunned sensation of having witnessed a ruthless application of craft"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Watching this film has something of the elemental thrill of watching a cloud-shadow spread with miraculous speed over a vast, empty landscape (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"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."	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Violent, poetic, gripping, thrilling and blackly funny: that’ll be the Coens doing what they do best then. Now with added humanity (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Foundas Village Voice	"In terms of filmmaking and storytelling craft, it is a work destined to be studied in film schools for generations to come (...) There isn’t a moment here that feels false (...) Then there is Bardem"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney The Independent	"A classy, masterly executed film (...) We get action sequences that you never knew the brothers were capable of (...) But I can't help feeling the film is ultimately hollow"	NEU

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