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Feb 10, 2016 · What makes the Coen brothers' movies so great — and hard to classify. The duo's latest film, Hail, Caesar!, captures the essence of why their work is so consistently delightful. By Peter ...
- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Masterful, and a little infuriating by design, the Coens' dark musical explores the torture of an unfulfilled, unmade creative life—like perhaps no other film.
- Barton Fink (1991) At this point in the list (and maybe even before it), we're discussing top tier Coen pictures, all extraordinary films.
- A Serious Man (2009) A little less than a decade before he killed us with that monologue at the end of Call Me By Your Name, Michael Stuhlbarg gave a tragicomic tour de force in the Coens' mesmerizingly unpleasant spin on the Book of Job.
- Raising Arizona (1987) The Coens' uproarious farce stars Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter as a couple who help them themselves to one fifth of an affluent family’s quintuplets.
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- No Country For Old Men (2007) The Coen Brothers at their best.
- Fargo (1996) The winner of several awards and accolades. Fargo. Where to Watch. *Availability in US. stream. rent. buy. Director. Joel Coen , Ethan Coen. Release Date.
- The Big Lebowski (1998) Demonstrate the Coen Brothers’ peak influence in filmmaking. The Big Lebowski. R. Where to Watch. *Availability in US. stream. rent. buy. Director.
- Raising Arizona (1987) The pinnacle of comedy within their filmography. Raising Arizona. PG-13. Where to Watch. *Availability in US. stream. rent. buy. Not available.
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Dec 6, 2023 · Hail, Caesar! (2016) The period zaniness of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Hail, Caesar! is an ode to old Hollywood—and much more—as only they can do, tracing the efforts of James Brolin’s studio...
- The Ladykillers
- Intolerable Cruelty
- Hail, Caesar!
- Burn After Reading
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- The Hudsucker Proxy
- The Man Who Wasn’T There
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Raising Arizona
- Miller’s Crossing
Arguably the only film in their back-catalog that feels like a total misfire, the Coens’ decision to remake The Ladykillers was always going to be a controversial one. The original Ealing comedy from 1955, starring Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers, is an all-time classic, a slow-burn and deeply morbid tale of bad men outwitted by the last person the...
Given their popularity with critics and audiences alike, it's worth remembering that the Coens aren't exactly mainstream film-makers. They don't bend their style or intent to suit Hollywood's tastes or the current industry trends. 2003's Intolerable Cruelty, however, feels as close as the brothers ever got to making an old-fashioned ready-for-prime...
A lot of 2016's Hail, Caesar! felt like an excuse for the Coens to live out their classic Hollywood fantasies while their famous friends joined in on the fun. That's not a knock on the movie itself, which is highly enjoyable, even as a lesser Coens effort. Josh Brolinplays Eddie Mannix, a real-life fixer for a Hollywood studio who is tasked with ke...
There are few things the Coens love more than turning Hollywood’s most darling hunky leading men into utter idiots. It’s the default mode of George Clooney in their work and for Burn After Reading, they also roped in Brad Pittand gave him one of the best and most hysterical roles of his career. This black comedy about hapless gym employees who come...
As with any and all movie anthologies, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs as a whole isn’t as strong as its best parts. Based on stories by Jack London and Stewart Edward White, as well as their own work, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs combines six disparate storiesbound by the common theme of death and survival in the old West. Some stories fare better th...
The Coens have never concealed their love of the works of Preston Sturges and 1940s screwball comedies, and 1994's The Hudsucker Proxy is their most lavish homage to those tales. The movie infamously flopped hard upon release, barely making back a tenth of its budget, and critics slammed it as a thematically empty pastiche. Fortunately, many change...
A love of film noir has defined the Coen brothers since their earliest days, and The Man Who Wasn't There sees them leaning hard into that passion for the first time since Blood Simple. Slowly paced and often abrasive, especially with Billy Bob Thornton playing the Bogart-esque protagonist with a deeply strange edge, the movie revels in its mixture...
It’s easy to forget just how big a deal O Brother, Where Art Thou? was upon release in 2000. The movie, a retelling of The Odysseyin the American South of the Great Depression, made a lot of money and inspired a brief mainstream revival of folk and bluegrass music, with the soundtrack even winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Reimagining...
Charm often comes naturally to the Coens, albeit with a sly twist, but Raising Arizona sees the pair working at their most buoyantly delightful. A screwball tale that doesn't downplay or dilute is strange darkness, the movie feels like the offspring of a Mel Blanc or Tex Avery cartoon from the 1940s, complete with slapstick chaos and a truly touchi...
At the time, Miller's Crossing was considered a disappointing step down for the Coens, following the financial success of Raising Arizona. The movie didn't make any money and some wrote it off as trying too hard to subvert the tropes of the gangster genre. All of that cynicism overlooks how skilfully the movie straddles the gap between the past and...
Jan 26, 2024 · From the just fine to simply divine, EW ranks the Coen brothers' filmography, which has enthralled, bemused, and entertained film fans and critics alike for decades.
Feb 5, 2016 · George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson escape from a chain gang and make their way across the South in this relentlessly episodic, gleefully corny epic that’s like a bluegrass-fueled...
