Those uneasy with gore may want to choose something else on this list. You Were Never Really Here has teeth, and it bites - a lot. The only trouble is that those involved are part of a much deeper political conspiracy, and Joe lands right in the middle of the villains and their victims. It’s standard fare: Rescue a senator’s daughter and take down anyone that gets in the way. Suffering from suicidal thoughts and years of trauma from his childhood through his military career, Joe agrees to a new mission. Joaquin Phoenix is on point in Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. The Oscar-winning actor plays Joe, a brutalizer-for-hire, with a specialty in rescuing trafficked girls. Packed with amazing performances and a nearly scoreless soundscape that puts the focus on the onscreen cat-and-mouse mayhem, movies really don’t get much better than this. Not only did No Country for Old Men win the Best Picture Oscar in 2007, but the film also bears the unique distinction of being only one of four Westerns to take home the gold. Hot on Llewelyn’s trail, Terrell County Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) is tasked with tracking down the killer-for-hire before he catches up with Moss. But it just so happens that this glorious treasure is the wanted property of one Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a stone-cold hitman hired to retrieve the cash, who just so happens to have a penchant for mowing down locals with a captive bolt pistol. Amidst the devastation sits a big bag of cash ($2 million), which Moss decides to take for himself. An adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men stars Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss, a Texas man who stumbles upon a botched drug deal in the desert.
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