Thrillers and horror rely on coin flips, roulette cylinders, and rigged games...

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Thrillers and horror rely on coin flips, roulette cylinders, and rigged games to ratchet up dread by turning chance into menace. In No Country for Old Men, a coin toss decides life or death, stripping control away and leaving characters trapped by fate