Blood Simple Reviews
Movie Metropolis
With a strong and stylish debut like Blood Simple, it didn't take a P.I. to see that the Coens were made for big things.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Watch this film, and these film makers, closely. Neither will disappoint.
An inordinately good low-budget film noir thriller.
Sacramento News & Review
A deadpan gothic thriller best described as the steamy, hardboiled fiction of Jim Thompson and James M. Cain filtered through two film-school brats.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Empire Magazine
As black, sinful and nasty as a weekful of Hitchcocks, this is as fresh and intoxicating now as it was back then. In a word: deadly.
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| Original Score: 5/5
eFilmCritic.com
Blood Simple isn't bad, just self-consciously poky and austere -- a James M. Cain homage, rural-art-film division.
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| Original Score: 4/5
EmanuelLevy.Com
A stunning debut, and arguably one of the Coens' two best features, this Gothic noir introduced the wry, sardonic, and playful approach that would shape their future work, and launched the screen career of the brilliant Frances McDormand.
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| Original Score: 5/5
DVDJournal.com
The script is so tight you can feel it screwing into the back of your neck.
The movie is as dark, ironic and fatalistically comic as modern film noir comes.
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| Original Score: B+
Cinema em Cena
Com um estilo marcante já no filme de estréia, os irmãos Coen criam uma obra noir tensa, envolvente e que faz do absurdo uma de suas principais armas.
| Original Score: 5/5
Black humor, abundant originality and a brilliant visual style make Joel Coen's Blood Simple, a directorial debut of extraordinary promise.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Top Critic...for all its delirious impudence and film school showiness, it's so clearly a movie made by guys crazy about moviemaking.
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| Original Score: A-
Boxoffice Magazine
Rolling Stone
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