| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten |
"...paved with delightfully irregular and unanticipated bits of business that stimulate the viewer to stay fully alert..." more... |
A- |
BBC
Nick Hilditch |
"Not only is this classic Coen Brothers, it's exemplary Jeff Bridges." more... |
A |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...weirdly engaging..." more... |
B |
| E! Online |
"...it's flashy, trashy low-brow fun." more... |
B+ |
Film Journal International
Maitland McDonagh |
"Hugely stylish parody of hard-boiled detective movies doesn't have much going on under the surface." more... |
C+ |
Film Threat
Merle Bertrand |
"Brilliantly scripted and full of a virtual Who's Who of familiar faces..." more... |
B+ |
filmcritic.com
Christopher Null |
"I wish the Coens the best, but they're going to have to do better than this. I know they can." more... |
B- |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"What you remember and enjoy about this film (if you remember and enjoy it at all) is not the forest but individual trees..." more... |
C+ |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...what a glorious, wonderfully-entertaining mess it is." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann |
"...the result is scattered, overamplified and unsatisfying." more... |
C+ |
| USA Today |
"...they (Coen brothers) roll enough solid laughs and eye-tickling camera tricks to satisfy." more... |
B |
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