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Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:24
Rotten:11
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: Episodes vary in quality, but overall this talky film is quirkily engaging.
Theatrical Release:May 14, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $1,971,135
Synopsis: Jim Jarmusch has consistently wowed audiences with his truly distinctive cinematic vision. Shot over the course of a 17-year-period, COFFEE AND CIGARETTES proves once again that Jarmusch is a true... [More]
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Stephen Wright, Joie Lee, Cinque Lee
Director: Jim Jarmusch
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Reviews for Coffee and Cigarettes
Top CriticWhat unites everything is Jarmusch's playful, hang-dog absurdism.
08/07/04
Top CriticThe film is a series of scenes, skits, episodes, that show two or sometimes three people smoking and sipping and conversing, usually in grungy places and usually improvising -- at least that's the intended impression.
06/13/04
Top CriticA hit-or-miss movie.
06/03/04
Top CriticAn irresistible idea results in a movie as hazy and sometimes as irritating as cigarette smoke.
05/28/04
Top CriticAt least three of the spots make the hour and a half worthwhile through an addicting blend of hilarity and beauty.
05/28/04
Top CriticSometimes movies tire us by trying too relentlessly to pound us with their brilliance and energy. Here is a movie pitched at about the energy level of a coffee break.
05/28/04
Top CriticThe short form looks like a genuine alternative in Jarmusch's hands because of what he does with it.
05/28/04
Top CriticThough Coffee and Cigarettes provokes the occasional buzz, it is really just a respite from any serious business [Jarmusch] may have planned, or may be putting off.
05/28/04
Top CriticIt has the sad, goofy charm of a silent comedy with Buster Keaton, a Jarmusch favorite, with passive-aggressive hits and flashes of barely contained antagonism.
05/27/04
Top CriticAlthough this talky collection of black-and-white films from Jim Jarmusch ... has the potential to drive anyone into the lobby, it rewards those who are patient.
05/27/04
Top CriticAlthough it flat-lines repeatedly in episodes that feel like improvised acting exercises, the film is more than intermittently amusing and occasionally hilarious.
05/27/04
Top CriticThe draggy ones make you restless while the best ones, like the movie's title ingredients, provide a buzz that doesn't last long enough.
05/27/04
Top CriticMyself, I loved it -- as much for the self-conscious banality and surreal pointlessness of its dialogue, which unravels over the course of 11 more or less unrelated vignettes, as for its austerely retro black-and-white photography.
05/21/04
Top CriticNearly all are almost painfully self-conscious as the actors strain for the hip brand of improvised spontaneity that is usually guaranteed by a Jarmusch production.
05/21/04
Top CriticJarmusch demonstrates once again why he is the sultan of strange encounters.
05/21/04
Top CriticThings pick up with the latter pieces, which were shot independently of any ongoing Jarmusch production and consequently feel less like outtakes, afterthoughts.
05/21/04
Top CriticExpect a map, and you'll be sorely disappointed. Work to make one, and you'll be happily addicted.
05/21/04
Top CriticJarmusch has aged into a hipster of a sly, vulnerable vintage.
05/21/04
Top CriticIt is way cool -- and funny -- in ways that more expensive comedies trying harder rarely are.
05/20/04
Top CriticLatest News for Coffee and Cigarettes
June 08, 2005:
Stiller & Coogan to Become DreamWorks' "Persuaders"
Ben Stiller ("Along Came Polly") and Steve Coogan ("Coffee and Cigarettes") will co-star in DreamWorks "The Persuaders," says Variety. Based on the... More...
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