Offices, three short comedies about the cubicle world, is about as fun as a day job.
It homes in on the quotidian small talk characteristic of people who define themselves by defining themselves.
Fargo is the Coens’ most ice-cold satire, but also features its warmest character.
Hardly worth a double-dip, but No Country’s ambient horror will pin you to the floor and slice into your neck with a taut handcuff chain.
The Coen brothers’ film paints its floundering Washington inhabitants as intractably or even fatally stupid.
This is an unfortunately slim DVD package for the best Oscar top-dog since Million Dollar Baby.
Susan Sontag was correct when she argued against excessive interpretation of artistic work.
Juno, they tell us, is a possible spoiler in the Best Picture race, but few seem to think its director stands a chance of winning here.
The Coen brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, and, arguably, Julian Schnabel are all pretty close to locks.
The Coens’ narrations often hint at, but rarely confirm, the existence of deliberate, supernatural forces.
The Coens bring a touch of levity to their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s relentlessly bleak 2003 novel.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown offers one comic-epic splendor after another.
Become “one” with Irma P. Hall’s killer humdingers with the DVD’s enhanced ScriptScanner enhanced computer feature.
The Ladykillers updates the endearing yet instantly forgettable Alec Guinness heist flick from quaint London to the Mississippi Bible belt.
Intolerable Cruelty ultimately doesn’t spend enough time in the courtroom and in the boudoir.
The Man Who Wasn’t There is a Cold War tragedy about a man who is as invisible to the world as he is to himself.