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“No Country For Old Men is a wonderwork,” rejoiced the Financial Times on the Coen Brothers’ latest masterpiece.

“The film is one masterly demonic tableau after another: violence is either hootingly explicit or spring-coiled in dialogue as terse as Pinter or images as runic as Magritte.”

Set near the Rio Grande on Texas’s sun-baked earth, No Country For Old Men traces the discovery by a hunter (Josh Brolin) of a huge amount of heroin and over $2 million in cash. The victims of this drugs transaction that went so terribly wrong are lying dead all around him.

He promptly absconds with the money, but tenacious characters are on his tail: Tommy Lee Jones’ world-weary sheriff and Javier Bardem’s psychotic killer (pictured above).

“Without doubt this is a classy, masterly executed film,” said the Independent on Sunday. “We get action sequences that you never knew the Coen Brothers were capable of and stakeout scenes of jaw-tightening tension.”

It is also a violent film in which Bardem’s killer dispatches a succession of victims with a cold stare and a dead heart.

Is there too much violence in the film? Derek Malcolm in the Evening Standard thought so: “Even though you couldn’t make it without a certain amount, and you can read into it what you like about America, evil, violence and greed.”

“However as a piece of cinema, it is plainly terrific. Avoid it if you must, but know you are missing a classic.”

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