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Blood brothers: the Coens deliver a brutal--and brilliant--portrait of Texas.

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The dog will haunt your nightmares, like no movie monster you've seen before.

He doesn't actually appear in Cormac McCarthy's 2005 bestseller, No Country for Old Men. But here he comes, barreling across the West Texas landscape in Joel and Ethan Coen's film version, a snarling pit bull unleashed by a pair of drug dealers to chase after Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), a Vietnam vet who has taken off with a briefcase of cash that the dealers want for themselves. Moss stumbles across the plain, bleeding from a bullet wound. The dog refuses to relent. Moss manages to make it across a river. The dog dives right in after him, paddling his way to the other bank. The chase continues, more harrowing and morbidly funny at every turn, until the dog takes an astonishing, acrobatic leap through the air, his jaw pitched directly at Moss's head. Moss turns to confront his fate, and then--well, to say any more would be to spoil one of the many pleasures of one of the year's best films.

Cormac...

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