No Country for Old Men

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  • Opened November 9, 2007 
  • 2 hr 2 min
  • R | strong graphic violence and some language
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. More on child suitability

  • Llewelyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back trunk. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law — namely aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell — can contain. Moss tries to evade his pursuers, in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives, as the crime drama broadens. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly MacDonald
  • Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Drama

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Boston Globe
| Ty Burr

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

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

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. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

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

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

If watching movie violence is cathartic, then this film amounts to heavy therapy. It's much more than that, however. 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 full review

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Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men."