Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, excerpted in the March 1992 issue of Esquire, marked a new chapter in the career of a writer already recognized as one of America's finest storytellers. The ...

All the Pretty Horses: Drama. Starring Matt Damon, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black and Penelope Cruz. Directed by Billy Bob Thornton. Written Ted Tally. (R, 112 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) In "All the ...

Danny Cox has never seen a movie in his entire life. The recently passed Cormac McCarthy is known to most movie fans for No Country for Old Men. His novel became the film many would call the Coen ...

The horses are loved and well cared-for: A carriage driver returns her horse Star to a stall at Clinton Stables on the far West Side. AP When Hollywood gives us an animal film, it’s not enough to have ...

"All the Pretty Horses" is a half-broken adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's great modern Western novel. Neither dull nor exciting, this long-in-the-works tale of two Texas boys who get all the trouble ...

The praises and prizes awarded Cormac McCarthy’s novel “All the Pretty Horses” represent the fruit of one of the more successful literary snow jobs of our time. Why were people snookered by that book?

Faced with a choice of blunt instruments with which to beat a good book into a bad movie, director Billy Bob Thornton chooses heavy, random, arty imagery and a leaden pace to thwack All the Pretty ...

This much-storied and long-in-the-making film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's widely cherished Western novel is neither the sacrilege that McCarthy's true believers feared nor the epiphany for which ...