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A major Coen brothers movie drawn from a minor Cormac McCarthy novel, this is a highly accomplished thriller that's also rather hypocritical when it tries to get moralistic about its bloodbaths. (Even more than its source, it taps into fundamentalist religious despair as an alibi for the violence.) Javier Bardem plays a psycho killer with a cattle stun gun, and Tommy Lee Jones costars as a Texas sheriff nearing retirement who wonders what the world's coming to. Josh Brolin is a welder who stumbles upon $2 million left in the wake of a blown drug deal and gets tracked by Jones, Bardem, and Woody Harrelson (a hired gun and comic relief). The storytelling is fluid, especially when directors Joel and Ethan Coen start eliding some of the murders and ask us to imagine them for ourselves. R, 122 min. By Jonathan Rosenbaum

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If I didn't know this movie was made by seasoned directors I would have dismissed it as the work of rank amateurs. It's bad enough to kill off your hero midstream, but to do it without letting the audience see how it plays out is beyond ridiculous. A movie is a visual medium. If I want to imagine how a huge chunk of the story goes I'll read the book. It's almost as if they ran out of money half way through and the producers said "There's no more money, wrap it up now." The most bizarre part of this story is the positive reaction by the public. I guess the i-pod generation are too busy texting to watch it all, anyway.

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Posted by WillieG on 01/17/2012 at 8:28 AM

The Coen brothers stay gruesomely true to the violence of McCarthy's novel and piece together their finest, most thought-provoking, and least satirical film to date given accuracy by a fearsome choreography of violence and an on-set of great performances with an unsettlingly quiet and brooding atmosphere to put it into an artistic context.

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Posted by Man at the Movies on 02/22/2012 at 5:25 PM
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