If this were not such great American-vernacular moviemaking -- hilarious yet hypnotic -- one would be tempted to see something Greek in the tragedy that Ed never comprehends.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Steadily engrossing and devilishly funny, and, o brother, does it look sharp.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
The Coens have used the noir idiom to fashion a haunting, beautifully made movie that refers to nothing outside itself and that disperses like a vapor as soon as it's over.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
When you're in the hands of the Coen brothers, you're in for sheer originality.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
You could say a lot about the very satisfying The Man Who Wasn't There, but what's for sure is that no one but the deadpan, dead-on Coen brothers could have turned it out.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
To be sure, there are goofy flourishes here, the in-jokey, left-field rummies that are the Brothers Coen's stock-in-trade. But this is altogether a quieter, more philosophical sort of endeavor.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Isn't content to stick to the genre conventions it sets up. Instead, it sprawls and mutates into one of the Coens' elaborate gizmoid yarns.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
The film is marvelous fun on its own terms -- I laughed all the way through it.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
This fastidiously hyperreal neo-noir suggests a sadder but wiser remake of the Coens' rambunctious debut, "Blood Simple."Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
It's the latest and one of the best entries in a genre whose highest philosophical expression is the whiplash realization that the universe doesn't play fair.Read Full Review »
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