Monday, August 15, 2011

Ranking the Coen Brothers’ Films


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

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