You don't need little old me to tell you Joel & Ethan Coen's latest is something special, and one of three front runners for every Best Picture trophy this awards season. That you know. What you might not know is that this film, while immaculate and awesome, is one bleak and morbid son of a bitch. Indeed, it is the tale of a hopelessly dismal, unfeasible situation which, in the face of audience expectation, remains true to the tragic arc. While the Coen brothers have always been masters of the surreal, with No Country, the hall of fame caliber filmmakers choose to reflect the reckless, purposeless, unreasonable side of reality.

As with Sheriff Ed Tom Bell's search for an unremorseful psychopathic murderer (Javier Bardem with ice in his veins and eyes), it is impossible to know where to begin in describing the power of the film. With the killer's propensity to slaughter any man, woman, or child in his path, Bell may wish to begin his investigation in hell