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Movie Info


Genre :

Comedy, Drama

Release Date :

September 12, 2008

MPAA Rating :

R

Director :

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Starring :

George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, Logan Kulick, Lenny Venito

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.    Readers  4 of 5 [Rate It]

3 of 4

“..wildly funny..”
by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone]
3.5 of 5

“..turns out to be a pretty good deal..”
by Bill Gibron [Filmcritic.com]
Review rate : B

“..much lighter and significantly slighter than "No Country for Old Men" or "Fargo"..”
by Sean Axmaker [Seattle Post Intelligencer]
3.5 of 4

“..joyfully alive to idiocy..”
by Colin Covert [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]
3 of 4

“..consistently funny..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
2.5 of 4

“..considerably less amazing than No Country for Old Men..”
by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
“..clubby, predictably self-amused..”
by Manohla Dargis [NY Times]
3 of 4

“..a goofy screwball romp that affords a gaggle of A-listers the chance to hambone around in antic style..”
by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]
3 of 5

“..a film to watch to see a great cast in action, and for its twisty plot that's terrific fun at times..”
by David Mercier [FilmJudge]
3 of 4

“..a comedy whose laughs are all coated in arsenic..”
by Rene Rodriguez [Miami Herald]
“..A bleakly funny spoof on spy films as well as a melancholy riff on despairing lives..”
by Kenneth Turan [LA Times]
4 of 5
Reviewed by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel]
3 of 4
Reviewed by James Berardinelli [Reelviews]
2.5 of 4
Reviewed by Kyle Smith [New York Post]
2 of 4
Reviewed by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]
2 of 5
Reviewed by Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News]

Reader's Reviews


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good film

posted by outlaw on Oct 17, 2008

Ignore those negative waves

posted by Fridaynights on Oct 18, 2008

What interesting about this movie is that the characters are all dork like people. The characters all have there funny and stupid sides to them which make the movie funny and interesting to watch. Also George Clooney is more sad and moronic character and he loves to get his “goof” out

posted by Hana on Oct 30, 2008

I didn’t think it was all that good but it has good acting, some good lines at times and interspersed laughs. However everything in between was just damn boring and not that funny. This is not worth a second watch from me.

posted by angel on Oct 30, 2008

if you handle the black humour of Fargo then don't miss this absolute GEM!!!

posted by scirroco on Nov 12, 2008

SOMEBODY KNOW WHO¨S THE SONG PLAYD ON THE TRAILERS THANKS

posted by ASLAN on Jan 10, 2009

brilliant! i LOVE clooney, i LOVE malkovich, i DON'T REALLY CARE FOR brad pitt, but he had a huge part in making the movie as hilarious as it was.

posted by rdog on Oct 17, 2009
 
 

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