6. "No Country for Old Men"

December 17, 2007

 

Unpredictability is the hallmark of any film by the brothers Coen, and the surprises never let up in their adaptation of novelist Cormac McCarthy’s 1980s-Texas-set crime thriller. Although it bares a resemblance to two of their best known films, the Oscar-nominated “Fargo” and their debut “Blood Simple,” no previous Coen effort is as dark or as thrilling. As the trio of men at the center of the story, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones and an instantly iconic Javier Bardem embody three vastly different sides of human nature. Whether you want to hold the film up for analytic scrutiny or simply enjoy the jolts from its surface-level suspense, it works in perfectly unpredictable Coen fashion.

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