No Country For Old Men (2007 Best Picture)

The tenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2007 features the Best Picture Oscar winner, the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen (based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy) and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Kelly Macdonald and Woody Harrelson, No Country for Old Men premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and went on to win four Oscars, including Best Picture.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/no-country-for-old-men-2007), A.O. Scott in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/movies/09coun.html), and Dana Stevens in Slate (https://slate.com/culture/2007/11/no-country-for-old-men-is-a-disappointing-masterpiece.html).

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