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No Country for Old Men
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91 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 37 Critics What's this?

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7.1 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 849 Ratings

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  • Starring: Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones
  • Summary: The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. The story begins when Llewelyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and 2 million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law, in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell, can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers--in particular, a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives--the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headline. (Miramax)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 37
  3. Negative: 1 out of 37
  1. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    100
    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.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    50
    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 it tightens its grip as it progresses, taking us deeper and deeper into a hellish world. I just don't like it very much.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    30
    A very well-made genre exercise, but I can't understand why it's been accorded so much importance, unless it's because it strokes some ideological impulse.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 331 out of 516
  2. Mixed: 60 out of 516
  3. Negative: 125 out of 516
  1. grandpajoe6191
    9
    The Coen Brothers did it again; "No Country for Old Men" proceeds its way to the oscars as a quiet, deep movie that strikes the core of tension, a true masterpiece.… Expand
    • 4 of 4 users said yes
  2. BobS.
    5
    The ending sucked, because there wasn't one. The whole movie is a set-up for a non-existent ending. It's like driving two hours to go to a theme park only to find a big hole in the ground. If that sounds like your kind of thing then I strongly suggest seeing this movie.… Expand
    • 4 of 7 users said yes
  3. DWilly
    3
    This movie makes the list of all time promising films that derail into crap. I know the critical numbers are high because the filmmaking is very strong (apart from using Josh Brolin, who just isn't up to the task, nevermind being repeatedly referred to in this contemporary setting as a Viet Nam vet, which would have put him in combat at around age five), but you can't, not only jerk the rug out from underneath your audience, but then go at them with a baseball bat as the story becomes devoid of clarity, humanity or point.… Expand
    • 1 of 2 users said yes

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