12.17.2007

No Country for Old Men

The fight has not ended. Not at all in any definite way. Tommy Lee Jones' Sheriff bears those realities ever so heavily and humbly and with... it's just damn good storytelling. There isn't a weak link in the whole picture. Steady beats the heart, and it may skip once or twice, but it's calm never ceases.


I think if I had to make a list of the Top Ten Thrillers of All Time, it might say something like:

1. Psycho
2. Taxi Driver
3. Inland Empire
4. Jaws
5. Vertigo
6. No Country for Old Men
7. Videodrome
8. Blue Velvet
9. Knife in the Water
10. North by Northwest

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