Cormac McCarthy

The Counselor

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The pedigree, on screen, is there: Ridley Scott directing, filling his film with a cast of heavyweights like Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz. Then add Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men, The Road) writing his first original screenplay, and it seems you would have a …

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No Country for Old Men

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The Coen Brothers take a novel approach to No Country for Old Men. And I mean that literally—this film is the most novel-like movie I’ve seen in ages, and, well, author Cormac McCarthy (whose book the film was based on) certainly must be relieved with the result. As soon as I found myself gnawing my …

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