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The Counsellor

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24 October 2013
160 pages
9781447227649
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

No Country for Old Men on a benderIndieWire on the film
The real stars of director Ridley Scott's moody, bloody crime thriller The Counselor aren't Fassbender, Bardem, Diaz, Cruz, or Pitt but writer Cormac McCarthy's wordsIGN on the film
Scott and McCarthy have created a film that in less accomplished hands could have slumped into melodrama, but that retains the grim humour, and the granitic implacability, of a classic morality taleTotal Film on the film
McCarthy has delivered a brutal study in griefEmpire on the film