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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. George Clooney ...
- 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.
5 days ago · Hail, Caesar! (2016)86%. #12. Critics Consensus: Packed with period detail and perfectly cast, Hail, Caesar! finds the Coen brothers delivering an agreeably lightweight love letter to post-war Hollywood. Synopsis: In the early 1950s, Eddie Mannix is busy at work trying to solve all the problems of the actors and...
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- No Country for Old Men (2007) Among other things, the Cormac McCarthy novel No Country for Old Men is about fate. That’s a very broad description of what goes on in the film adaptation, which won Best Picture in 2008, and tells a seemingly simple story of a West Texas man (Josh Brolin), a suitcase with $2 million, and the consequences of making the choice to spend money that doesn’t belong to him.
- Raising Arizona (1987) Nothing fills me with joy quite like forgetting that Raising Arizona goes on for 11 minutes before we ever even get to the credits.
- Blood Simple (1984) I don’t know if any filmmaker has had a better debut than the Coens did with Blood Simple. It’s one of my favorite neo-noir films, and it’s one of the most fascinating examples of a movie being funny in a way that’s not specifically trying to be funny.
- A Serious Man (2009) Who pivots from Burn After Reading in 2008 to A Serious Man in 2009? Besides having possibly the best and most infuriating ending in the entire Coen Brothers library, A Serious Man is an incredible character study in its depiction of a physics professor (Michael Stuhlbarg as a likable variation of The Bible’s Job) trying to understand why his life is a whirlwind of constant of calamity and collapse.
- 11 A Serious Man
- 10 Blood Simple
- 9 O Brother, Where Art Thou
- 8 Inside Llewyn Davis
- 7 True Grit
- 6 Raising Arizona
- 5 Fargo
- 4 Barton Fink
- 3 No Country For Old Men
- 2 The Big Lebowski
One of the Coen brothers later works less concerned with the plot but narrows the focus to its characters concerning particular philosophical and moral quandaries, A Serious Manis a film that has deep contempt for definitive answers. With only one-time collaborator in the lead role as a professor whose life seems to be slipping into the realm of ch...
One of the great debuts of the late 20th century,Blood Simple was a film by two directors that showed you all of their interests and foreshadowed a career to come. A sparse noir swept with existential dread in every corner but also a sly, southern goofball sense of humor, Blood Simple was the arrival of a dynamic duo whose filmmaking voice would ne...
Honing in on their love of old folk music that would later come to fruition in their film Inside Llewyn Davis, O Brother, Where Art Thou?is a road-trip comedy that takes loose inspiration from Homer’s “The Odyssey”. With an undeniably fun trio of George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson, and their forever muse, John Turturro, the three play escaped convict...
One of the Coen brothers' saddest films in their long filmography, Inside Llewyn Davistakes us to the East Village of Manhattan during the folk renaissance of the early 1960s and the artists who inhabit the scene. Oscar Isaac plays the titular character as his free fall through artistic and money struggles doubles as one long ride through hell. Pun...
A remake of the John Wayne Western classic and adaptation of the Charles Portis novel, True Grit features an Oscar-nominated performance by Jeff Bridges and tells a harrowing tale of revenge and retribution sought out by a 14-year-old girl and a booze-loving, gunslinging lawman. The Coens were determined to create a more faithful version of the lit...
The first of many looney tune, goofball adventures, Raising Arizona is in part a Road Warrior parody and a film about parental anxiety. Featuring a near, outer-worldly motorcycle mercenary on par with the devil and a finely tuned southern performance from Nicolas Cage, the Coens' first foray into their moral parables is a classic. Not only showcasi...
After the box office failure of a big studio picture like Hudsucker Proxy, the Coen’s decided to make a move towards the minimal, sparse landscape of Noir that put their name on the map. Fargo is an early crime masterwork from the Coens that acts like a savage tale of desperation and lowly criminals who abide by no moral code. Filled with an incred...
In part a cautionary tale of artistic arrogance but also a wholly terrifying dive into the mind of a writer experiencing a creative block, Barton Fink is one of the more terrifying films in the Coen brothers filmography. Filled with a Stanley Kubrick-like dread in the halls of a creepy Hollywood hotel, the Coens lead us through the corridors of the...
Heralded as an instant classic upon release and met with surprising box-office success, given its bleak worldview and graphic violence, No Country For Old Men is another perfect, sparse noir in the same tune as Fargofrom the directing duo. This time swapping out the blanket white snow for the dry, brown landscape of the Texas desert, the Coens' fil...
The depth of the Coen brothers films across genres is a credit to their long line of referential material and metaphor in subtext. The Big Lebowski, on its face, is a stoner comedy about the laid-back life of “The Dude” caught in the cross-hairs of a kidnapping scheme. But, the cult status of The Big Lebowskisuggests more. Equal parts philosophical...
Feb 1, 2016 · 7. Barton Fink. 20th Century Fox / Everett Collection. Every movie above this one is a consensus Coen Bros classic. Every movie beneath this one is…not. Almost all of them have ardent defenders ...
Feb 23, 2024 · The Coen Brothers’ first comedy film, “Raising Arizona” sticks out today as possibly the duo’s gentlest, sweetest movie, a hilariously funny but deeply empathetic story of love and family.
