20 Most Rewatchable Movies Of The 21st Century

9. No Country For Old Men (2007)

No Country for Old Men marks the point at which the Coens entered a more serious-minded existential phase (every film they've made since then, excepting perhaps True Grit, has been a treatise on human suffering and the role that fate plays in our lives). But No Country still stands out for being one of the brothers' most purely cinematic, as taciturn and deep-thinking as hero Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), and still as blackly amusing as any of Joel and Ethan's previous works, which only repeated watches will reveal.

What keeps viewers coming back is the high tension of No Country's set-pieces, essentially a series of escalating motel showdowns, but the film states without overstating themes of mortality and inevitability, using its quiet closing scenes to provide some surreptitious brain food for the audience.

There's also that formidable trio squaring off against each other without ever actually coming face-to-face: Josh Brolin as the Vietnam vet' sorely out of his depth, Javier Bardem as the sociopathic hitman hunting him down and Tommy Lee Jones as the West Texas sheriff on the trail of them both. Throw granite-jawed Woody Harrelson into the mix and you have one of the most old-school macho-offs found in cinema today.