A Violent Epic

Rating: 10/10 (8 August 2019)

While I find this film to be utterly astounding, and this is the only Coen film that won them the Oscar for Best Picture (and Directors- they previously won a Writing award for "Fargo"), I'm not even sure if this is my favorite Coen brother film. That right there should speak to the brilliance of these brothers. There are very few directors that I can point to and say, "They have so many masterpieces that it's hard to pick a top five." The Coen brothers have had a wonderful career, and I believe they've cemented their names along other cinema greats like Fellini, Kubrick, Tarkovsky, Bergman, and Tarantino. "No Country for Old Men" is a brutal, bleak, disturbing modern western, it screams its message loud for everyone to hear, and while at times it might be hard to watch, it is almost impossible to turn away.