From "Blade Runner" to spaghetti westerns, Ridley Scott's personal pick runs down the inspirations for one of the most diverse, spine-tingling scores of the year. By Matt Patches The Counselor ...

Long before the first heads have popped off in director Ridley Scott and writer Cormac McCarthy’s leering new thriller The Counselor, a club owner named Reiner (Javier Bardem) sits down with his ...

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“The Counselor” is written by Cormac McCarthy with the sort of grim, existentially weary atmosphere one might expect, but it’s directed by Ridley Scott like a wild grindhouse picture. Until this mixed ...

Ridley Scott has made some of the true classics in film. He has also made some truly ghastly duds. Still, when I see his name attached as director, that is a movie I will definitely be seeing. When I ...

Mood is priority in the dense, enigmatic, and absorbing screenwriting debut of author Cormac McCarthy. Though The Counselor saunters along with the skeleton of a thriller, the meat is that sensation ...

In the movie, a selfish lawyer, known as The Counselor (Michael Fassbender), is forced to delve into the Mexican drug trafficking world. Along the way we meet his sweet, religious girlfriend Laura ...

It was Saint-Exupery's Little Prince who declared: "It's a little lonely in the desert." That's a notion writer Cormac McCarthy knows well, his later novels often taking place in dusty Western locales ...

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As cold, precise and soulless as the diamonds that figure briefly in its plot, “The Counselor” is an extremely unpleasant piece of business. You could call it “Three Beheadings and No Funeral,” but ...

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When an indisputably great author like Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian, The Road) writes his first original screenplay, attention must be paid. When that screenplay turns out to be as clunky as The ...