Fargo Reviews

Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way -- defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

All attitude and low aptitude. Its function is to italicize the Coens' giddy contempt toward people who talk and think Minnesotan.

| Original Score: 2/5

If Fargo could make up its mind what kind of movie it wanted to be, it might find meaning in its tangle of surface caricatures and impeccable technical stylistics.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

The danger in portraying characters you consider significantly less interesting than yourself is that too much superiority and not enough affection can lead to a fatal snottiness.

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

To watch it is to experience steadily mounting delight, as you realize the filmmakers have taken enormous risks, gotten away with them and made a movie that is completely original, and as familiar as an old shoe.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

It's easy to admire what the Coens are trying to do in Fargo, but more difficult to actually like the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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

Even a lunch pulled from a buffet adds texture to the film.

Full Review | Original Score: high +2 out of -4..+4

The best movie heroine in years.

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

Dark, gritty, and brilliant. Not for kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

She's a sharp cookie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Funny without really trying to be, and it proves conclusively that fact is stranger than fiction.

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One of those rare pictures about which I have nothing negative to say.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

The Coens remain effortlessly ahead of the American field.

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Finally, [the Coens] have given us characters we can care for, a story that keeps us wondering, hoping and guessing, as well as the distinctive visual style that marks all Coen productions.

Full Review | Original Score: 90/100

With the subtle, homespun and ironic performances of Macy and Frances McDormand ... the film becomes a darkly laughable tale of small town normality going awry.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

...one of the most hilariously twisted murder mysteries to come along since, well, since never.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

Um dos grandes trunfos de Fargo reside em seus diálogos. O problema é que estes duelos verbais travados entre os personagens perdem muito durante a tradução para o português.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5