[MikeRS]

Ebert calls it a "perfect film".

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...ALS03/70908002

[JonZ]

James B gave it 3 and 1/2 stars, really liking it.

http://www.reelviews.net/movies/n/no_country.html

"Not to mention that Javier Bardem portrays a monster with such a sick mind that it almost makes Norman Bates in Psycho seem normal."

He called Bardems character the best on screen villian since Hopkins Lecter in SOTL

[Bill GrandPre]

I won't be able to see this before the wide release on the 21st and I have a message to everyone that's already seen it:

I hate you.

[MikeRS]

Yeah, it's awesome.

The thing is, you could legitimately just declare it one of greatest suspense thrillers ever made and call it a day. It's riveting stuff, and what film wouldn't be content with that label. But what really stays with you when you leave the theater are the philosophical meditations/probings. The film has an extremely existential perspective. All the choices/decisions the character make are really key (And Bardem definitely represents our awareness and anxiety of impending death/chaos. He's definitely not any kind of "rational" force in the world).

[Robert Crawford]

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[Jose Martinez]

Damn!!!! I wanted to see this today but it was sold out!!!!!!

[JonZ]

Looks like Im prob gonna have to wait until the 21st too

[Thi Them]

I'm going to try to see it again next weekend.

~T

[Jefferson Morris]

Saw it this weekend. Haven't enjoyed a Coen film as much since Fargo, and I may even prefer it to that film, although I still have to chew on it a bit to really determine its merit.

Everything they're saying about Javier Bardem is true. You can't look away any time he's on screen, even when you want to.

Most of the film's running time is a flawlessly executed thriller, a la Blood Simple, with some semi-philosophical musings from Tommy Lee Jones' sheriff character thrown in. Then the last act of the film takes a narrative turn that will leave some viewers frustrated, but which really serves to foreground those hitherto background themes and forces you to think about them. Your willingness to do so will largely dictate your response to the ending.

I guess I don't really have to avoid spoilers here, but I will anyway, since it appears few have seen this one yet. Suffice to say that this is a must-see, certainly a return to form for the Coens, although it will divide people.

--Jefferson Morris