No Country for Old Men (2007)

No Country for Old Men (2007)

[8] Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin star in this Southwestern chase movie that doubles as a meditation on man's perpetual but futile attempt to make order out of chaos. Brolin's character, Llewelyn Moss, stumbles upon the bloody aftermath of…
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

[7] In the Deep South of the 1930s, George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson star as convicts who escape a chain gang to seek out buried treasure at Clooney's home. The three men encounter a colorful array of characters on…
Suburbicon (2017)

Suburbicon (2017)

[4] After his mother is killed in a home invasion, a young boy (Noah Jupe) begins to suspect his father (Matt Damon) and aunt (Julianne Moore) staged the event -- and that his life is now in danger, too. He tries to…
Bridge of Spies (2015)

Bridge of Spies (2015)

[7] Steven Spielberg dramatizes the true Cold War-era story of James Donovan (Tom Hanks), an American lawyer tasked with defending a Russian spy named Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) in court. When Abel is convicted, Donovan pleads to keep the death penalty off…
A Serious Man (2009)

A Serious Man (2009)

[4] The Coen Brothers run hot and cold with me. Sometimes I get them, sometimes I don't. This is one of the times that I don't, and I can only figure it's because the comedy is too subdued and the point is…
Blood Simple (1984)

Blood Simple (1984)

[8] The Coen Brothers broke onto the film scene with this claustrophobic mystery/thriller featuring Frances McDormand, John Getz, and Dan Hedaya in a murderous love triangle. M. Emmet Walsh complicates matters for all of them as a hitman for hire. The concept…
Hail, Caesar! (2016)

Hail, Caesar! (2016)

[6] The Coen Brothers are at it again, this time with a wonky tale of 1950s Hollywood studio politics mixed with political scandal. Hail, Caesar! is scattershot in its narrative. Josh Brolin's character is marginally the main protagonist. Brolin plays a gruff…
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

[8] Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption) stars as an unwitting mail room clerk thrust into the office of CEO at a mythical uber-corporation when the board members decide to send the company's stocks into a nose dive. But the board, headed by…
Raising Arizona (1987)

Raising Arizona (1987)

[10] Holly Hunter and Nicolas Cage star as Ed and Hi, a police woman and a supposedly reformed felon who try to start a family in Joel and Ethan Coen's Raising Arizona. But when they can't conceive a child of their own,…