I love the Coen brothers and No Country for Old Men was a great movie. (I bet Rove has one of those pneumatic gizmos in the trunk of his invisible car.)
I once saw a HUGE DUmmie thread where they were actually blaming the 2004 terrorist attack in Madrid on Karl Rove (apparently Rove wanted a distraction. From what I can't remember). You might have seen it- it made the rounds on the web. I can't remember the details but it was without a doubt the most deranged thing I've ever seen from DUmmie Land.
Tarantino's films, the ones I've stomached, hand out redemption like government cheese. Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction both did it.
Go back in time to Mean Streets. Redemption is something you EARN. Something that some of us never achieve.
The Coens, while nihilistic, subtly portray strength against the evil. And some days you eat the bear, and some days the bear eats you.
As to PT Anderson (son of Ghoulardi--a Cleveland icon) he's a brilliant filmmaker, and I don't know nor care what his politics are. Boogie Nights was an excellent film, though I thought that he allowed the Tarantino influence to affect the conclusion of the movie.
Then he comes out with Magnolia; with such complexity and a manic point of view that you feel that you've been watching nine movies at once and it comes down to redemption and what can be forgiven and what cannot.
Frogs come out of the sky. And they save what you think cannot be saved. (Everyone can be saved.)
In Punch Drunk Love he uses primary colors and masterfully casts Adam Sandler as as a cowardly, repressed man who suddenly discovers super-human strength through the power of love.
There Will be Blood is still pretty fresh. Some days I think this guys greed and ambition drove him to ruin. Other days I wish I had a bowling alley in my house.