With their inspired, absurdist taste for weird, peculiar Americana-but a sort of neo-Americana that is entirely invented-the Coens have defined and mastered their own bizarre subgenre.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
Watching it amble along is enough of a treat, since the Coens populate this story with oddballs and bowling balls of such comic variety.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
The movie is as visually inventive and wildly eccentric as the Coens' earlier movies, but it lacks the emotional maturity and moral clarity of 1996's "Fargo."Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Some may complain The Big Lebowski rushes in all directions and never ends up anywhere. That isn't the film's flaw, but its style.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
This is a comic amusement park ride – a wildly uneven movie that offers tremendous pleasure for the moment, even if it doesn't stand up well to post-screening analysis and scrutiny.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Nearly everything in The Big Lebowski is a put-on, but all that leaves you with is the Coens' bizarrely over-deliberate, almost Teutonic form of rib nudging.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: Jack Kroll
Frothing from two mouths, they parody film noir, megaviolent thrillers, sports allegories, ravaged-war-veteran movies, existentialist Westerns, even Busby Berkeley musicals.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
This film feels completely haphazard, thrown together without much concern for organizing intelligence.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Alex Ross
The great flaw in most of the Coens' work is, surprisingly, an inability to sustain a plot over a two-hour span.Read Full Review »
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