Blood Simple Reviews
It isn't really about anything except making a commercial narrative movie outside the industry.
Watch this film, and these film makers, closely. Neither will disappoint.
An inordinately good low-budget film noir thriller.
The movie remains mired in a smart-alecky film-school sensibility.
The movie is as dark, ironic and fatalistically comic as modern film noir comes.
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| Original Score: B+
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-
The Coens, then as now, are alive to the possibilities of movies. So savor their technique and the sizzling performances.
| Original Score: 3/4
From first shot to last, the Coens seldom miss an opportunity to suggest that theirs is a movie made by evolutionarily advanced life-forms touring a primitive planet.
It tells a story in which every individual detail seems to make sense, and every individual choice seems logical, but the choices and details form a bewildering labyrinth in which there are times when even the murderers themselves don't know who they are.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Rolling Stone
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