The Tragedy of Macbeth

Joel Coen's stark and silvery take on the Bard's revenger

"...Directed by: Joel Coen. Starring: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Corey..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Hail, Caesar!

The Coen brothers celebrate and eviscerate old Hollywood

"...Directed by: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring: Josh Brolin, George Clooney,..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The Coen brothers head West, but it's a bumpy ride

"...Directed by: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring: Tim Blake Nelson, David..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Inside Llewyn Davis

The latest from the Coen Brothers nails the Sixties folk-music scene, and delivers another of their memorably flawed heroes.

"...Directed by: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. Starring: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Serious Man

The Coen brothers deliver one of their best and most personal movies, a kind of cockeyed Jewish fable that urges us to embrace life's mysteries.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Fred Melamed,..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

No Country for Old Men

The Coen brothers display magnificent form with this Cormac McCarthy tale about intransigent evil in the modern West.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Big Lebowski

A case of mistaken identity embroils the supremely go-with-the-flow character of the Dude (Bridges) in an intersecting mix of kidnapping, pornography, German nihilists, sultry women, gumshoes, missing money, and missing toes.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen. Starring: Jeff Bridges, Sam Elliott, John Goodman, Ben..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

In this Depression-era Coen brothers film, a trio of chain-gang escapees seek a (possibly mythical) treasure while on the lam from a diabolical sheriff.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen. Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson,..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Burn After Reading

The Coen brothers may be masters of black comedy, but there are times when there’s no point in taking them seriously.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand,..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Fargo

The Coen brothers return to their Blood Simple roots with this bizarre, dialect-strewn tale of a kidnapping gone very wrong that's filled with the their trademark graveyard wit and unique camera angles.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen. Starring: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi,..."

March 22, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ladykillers

The Coen brothers remake a British comedy classic starring Tom Hanks in a flamboyantly love-him-or-hate-him performance.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring: Tom Hanks, Irma P...."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Man Who Wasn't There

The story is rife with the Coens' ripe ambivalence, a black seriocomic opera of fouled-up American dreams, and a meditation on ambivalence that is itself often as ambiguous as the emotional meanderings of its protagonist, a small-town barber. The film's black-and-white image processing is stunning.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen. Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini,..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Barton Fink

This Coen brothers' comedy has a wicked sense of retribution.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen. Starring: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael..."

Oct. 4, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Blood Simple: The Director's Cut

"...Directed by: Joel Coen. Starring: Samm-Art Williams, M. Emmet Walsh, Dan Hedaya,..."

July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blood Simple

"...Directed by: Joel Coen. Starring: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M...."

July 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hudsucker Proxy

This Coen brothers film is a goofy ode to genres and eras gone by. Although it's a little less “weird” than much of their work, it still retains a mannered and quirky air with performances that walk a line between realism and understated surreality.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen. Starring: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman,..."

April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

True Grit

Rooster Cogburn rides again in this Coen brothers' remake of the Western classic.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon,..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Intolerable Cruelty

The Coen brothers tackle a comedy of manners and come out winners.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen. Starring: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Raising Arizona

The Coen brothers sealed their place in film history as more than just a novelty act with this demented comedy about an infertile couple who steal a baby. The family values here are arresting.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John..."

June 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mac

"...Turturro, in his directing debut, borrows heavily from friends Joel and Ethan Coen -- a painfully extended fight sequence..."

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

8 MM

"...Directed by: Joel Schumacher. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Chris..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...Moore, Steve Buscemi, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. The stakes seemingly couldn’t be..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Reservoir Dogs

"...in the Middle With You” plays in the background. Coen Brothers refugee Steve Buscemi (“Mr. Pink? Why do I..."

Oct. 30, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Suburbicon

The dark side of Fifties middle America

"...a time, Suburbicon existed as an unproduced script by Joel and Ethan Coen (perhaps they realized that they were..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Boy Erased

Joel Edgerton goes to gay conversion therapy's heart of darkness

"...Directed by: Joel Edgerton. Starring: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Joel Edgerton, Russell..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Just Your Average Stiff

"...as The Hudsucker Proxy, made by his close friends Joel and Ethan Coen, and his ongoing role as the..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Red Rock West

"...West feels like a Jim Thompson novel, looks like Joel and Ethan Coen's Blood Simple, and packs more twisty..."

March 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Super

"...been a deliciously foul little black comedy a la Joel and Ethan Coen, had it been handled with a..."

Oct. 11, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

There Will Be Film

"...4) No Country for Old Men The Coen brothers return to form with this elliptical, agnostic trip..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Page Two

It's time to celebrate the coming of South by Southwest and think about how we're going to pay for our roads

"...Ellen Burstyn; Irma P. Hall, to be inducted by Joel and Ethan Coen; Robert Rodriguez, to be inducted by..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Column by Louis Black

1   2   3     NEXT ›    3 »