Fargo Reviews

Dark, gritty, and brilliant. Not for kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

"Fargo" is the kind of black comedy you can rediscover over and over again. The laughs and shocks never fade.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Quite simply, Fargo is the best movie the Coen Brothers have ever made. And that's saying a lot.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

The most complete film the Coens have ever made, it's nothing short of a movie for the ages.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The Coen Brothers have always loved to go far, a tactic they don't forgo in Fargo. [Blu-ray]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Do you have to be a Minnesotan to really get Fargo?

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The best movie heroine in years.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

This may be the warmest movie the Coen brothers have ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Fargo is a strikingly mature, uniqueentertainment that plays on many levels ... all satisfying.

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[Marge is] a good cop because everything abnormal stands out like a stain against her white-on-white sanity.... [H]er incomprehension [of criminality] is not only her strength as a detective, it justifies the deadpan style of the movie.

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Much less vain, flamboyant, and showy than their other pictures, Fargo bears the thematic influence of Samuel Beckett and the stylish coolness of Finland's Aki Kaurismaki, but the violence is all Coens.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

One of the more entertaining films of the 1990s.

Full Review | Original Score: A

The Coens remain effortlessly ahead of the American field.

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This is a near brilliant/near masterpiece (if not an outright masterpiece).

Full Review | Original Score: A

It's good storytelling ... hilarious, disturbing, tragic, and hopeful. But it's not for the squeamish.

| Original Score: A

An odd, intriguing, and entertaining film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

The brothers have returned to their roots, both visually and literally. Their new film is reminiscent of their debut movie, Blood Simple, and its wry look at murder.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

For all its blood, the movie contains large doses of humor and not a little sweetness and hope.

Full Review | Original Score: A+

[The Coen brothers'] very best film, crammed with memorable characters and quotable dialogue.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Thank you, brothers Coen. You have renewed my faith in the serious talent who cannot be lured into the pecuniary heavens of Hollywood.

| Original Score: 4/4