- No Country for Old Men: Pretty close to perfect
- The Big Lebowski: a great cult movie
- Fargo: one of the most watchable movies ever made; how could anyone not like it?
- Miller’s Crossing: a beautiful gangster movie
- A Serious Man: a movie that gets its time and place
- True Grit: two-thirds of a great movie; the last act fails
- Barton Fink: a fun oddity
- Raising Arizona: starts great and goes downhill
- Brother, Where Art Thou?: kind of fun but not much there
- Burn After Reading: saved by Brad Pitt and Fances McDormand; the rest of the movie is awful.
- The Hudsucker Proxy: uninteresting through and through
Ones I haven’t seen:
- The Man Who Wasn't There
- Intolerable Cruelty
- Blood Simple
- The Ladykillers