Having recently watched Kubrick's The Shining, I am reminded that sometimes suspense and atmosphere are more effectively generated by stillness and deliberation than aggressive, emphatic style.

It's not often that we get a monumental landmark in cinema in any given year, but 2007 gave us two such landmarks, in No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. The twin masterpieces by the ...

By Ray Bennett CANNES — Joel and Ethan Coen’s In Competition film is titled No Country for Old Men, but it’s set in an unforgiving 1980s West Texas landscape that appears to be populated ...

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In terms of blending critical and commercial success, though, their biggest movie may be “No Country for Old Men.” That’s a bit surprising, given how grim and bleak the film is. Here are 20 ...

Joel and Ethan Coen's neo-Western No Country for Old Men tracks the fate and lack of fortune for men in a lawless land of cartels and assassins, and the authorities largely powerless to stop the ...

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