Unlike a real critic, I don’t have to go to movies I don’t think I’m going to like. I don’t have an editor assigning me films to review, nor do I feel the need to see everything, so I can warn the public–the members of which don’t listen to critics anyway–not to waste its [...]
Tags: Coen, Cronenberg, Eastern Promises, Film, Johnny Depp, movies, No Country for Old Men, Once, Tim Burton, Viggo Mortensen, year end
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Movie City News is keeping track of the year-end goings on; they’ve got a Big-Ass Chart (don’t blame me, that’s what they call it) with upwards of 175 critics’ top-ten lists tabulated. By their reckoning, the film with the most cred on critic’s year-end lists is No Country for Old Men, by a long [...]
Tags: Coens, Film, Juno, Movie City News, movies, No Country for Old Men, Once, Oscars, There Will Be Blood, top-ten lists
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Randomness—and it’s handmaiden nothingness—looms large in Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest film No Country for Old Men. From the opening shots of empty space to the abrupt cut to black at its end, No Country for Old Men relentlessly portrays its consequences and effects. This is most explicit in bizarre games of chance between [...]
Tags: Analysis, Chigurh, Coen, Film, Javier Bardem, movie, No Country for Old Men, Tommy Lee Jones
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