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      • Given the high quality of the Coen Brothers' output, it's fair to say that very few of these even come close to being genuinely bad, but such is the cruel nature of a worst-to-best ranking; some titles have to be closer to the bottom than others, even if in the overall scheme of things, they're certainly not bottom-of-the-barrel movies.
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  2. Feb 1, 2016 · In fact, it might be one of their worst. But here's the thing: Even the Coen Brothers's worst movies are still pretty not-terrible. Only two Coen Brothers movies are flat-out bad. Three are meh ...

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  3. Feb 23, 2024 · Fargo. to. No Country for Old Men. and More. With the release of Ethan Coen's Drive-Away Dolls, we decided to rank all 20 movies directed by either Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, or both. Spoiler alert ...

    • FARGO (1996) Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Harve Presnell, John Carroll Lynch.
    • NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) Screenplay by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garrett Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Barry Corbin, Stephen Root, Rodger Boyce, Beth Grant.
    • THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro, Tara Reid, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara, David Thewlis, Peter Stormare.
    • BLOOD SIMPLE (1984) Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, Samm-Art Williams, M. Emmet Walsh. The Coens made their feature debut with this twisting, violent, darkly comic thriller.
    • No Country for Old Men (2007) An unforgettable noir suffused with existential dread. Javier Bardem‘s bowl-cutted killer entered the cultural zeitgeist, but Tommy Lee Jones‘s final monologue is equally memorable in its decent-minded and fed-up despair.
    • Burn After Reading (2008) A broad and unsettling comedy that is loose and instinctive and moves like a dream. Brad Pitt was never better or funnier than as gym trainer Chad Feldheimer, a dumb guy who lets the equally dumb Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand, hilarious) draw him into a CIA plot.
    • A Serious Man (2009) The dark comedy is suffused with a slow-burning and Kafka-esque dread, and it bears comparison to any similar Saul Bellow or Philip Roth novel of the late 1960s and early 1970s in its clear-eyed moral rigor.
    • Fargo (1996) An instant classic, a tale of violence in a small town that was an early indicator of just how fresh and unexpected a Coen brothers movie could be.
    • Raising Arizona (1987) Babies are complicated. Raising children in the yin and yang homestead of criminal H.I. "Hi" McDunnough (Nicolas Cage) and his police officer wife Ed (Holly Hunter) gets even more complicated because they stole the child in question.
    • No Country for Old Men (2007) Every bullet in this neo-Western crime drama has a purpose. An adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, No Country for Old Men offers a colorless look at drugs and murder on the border.
    • The Big Lebowski (1998) Lebowski (a.k.a. the Dude, effortlessly played by Jeff Bridges) didn't sign up to be the star in this L.A. noir, man; he's just, like, stuck here trying to find a new rug.
    • Fargo (1996) The plotline for the multi-Oscar-winning dark comedy Fargo is centered on easy money but it comes at the expense of, well, everything. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) thinks he has the perfect plan to make a fast buck, but every calculation he makes is wrong.
  4. Also that year, they executive produced and did an uncredited rewrite of the Christmas black comedy Bad Santa, which garnered positive reviews. [49] In 2004, the Coens made The Ladykillers , a remake of the British classic by Ealing Studios . [50]

  5. Nov 2, 2023 · With the 1998 comedy classic 'The Big Lebowski,' the Coen brothers utilized film noir and Hollywood history to make their stoner mystery. The Dude still abides 25 years later. Collider

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