James Wood was stunned like a downer beef by the cliches of pulp fiction in No Country for Old Men. But I liked it. I liked the violence, I liked the guns, I liked the senselessness. As always, McCarthy is a master at portraying filth, squalor, and meaninglessness, and what better gallery for that talent [...]
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