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Violent, quirky, and darkly funny, Fargo delivers an original crime story and a wonderful performance by McDormand.
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The Coen Brothers are among the most able practitioners in America and this film is one of their best attempts to turn a familiar genre -- the True Crime drama -- into something miles away from the ordinary. Mar 20, 2018 | Full Review…
The Coen Brothers are among the most able practitioners in America and this film is one of their best attempts to turn a familiar genre -- the True Crime drama -- into something miles away from the ordinary.
Derek Malcolm
[Frances] McDormand is excellent and has a lot of fun with her tenacious and competent character, who is dedicated to duty and her sweet, supportive husband. Mar 19, 2018 | Full Review…
[Frances] McDormand is excellent and has a lot of fun with her tenacious and competent character, who is dedicated to duty and her sweet, supportive husband.
David Hunter
In effect, the Coens have written an action film that disregards the basic principle of the genre: that character is expressed in action. Nov 14, 2017 | Full Review…
In effect, the Coens have written an action film that disregards the basic principle of the genre: that character is expressed in action.
Adam Mars-Jones
Two words. Marge Gunderson. Mar 10, 2016 | Rating: 5/5
Two words. Marge Gunderson.
Kate Muir
The film is a work of brick-by-brick world-building in the service of characters whose ordinariness is just as carefully crafted. Jan 19, 2016 | Full Review…
The film is a work of brick-by-brick world-building in the service of characters whose ordinariness is just as carefully crafted.
Chris Packham
Fargo, with its grotesque murders and cheery detectives, is a cold gem that takes us to the far north. Its seemingly pitiless light opens up the realms of darkness concealed beneath that world of white. Apr 21, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Fargo, with its grotesque murders and cheery detectives, is a cold gem that takes us to the far north. Its seemingly pitiless light opens up the realms of darkness concealed beneath that world of white.
Michael Wilmington
This curiously overpraised yet solid effort by two of the foremost satirists of contemporary Americana again finds director Joel and writer-producer Ethan surveying the wreckage of our national innocence. May 30, 2019 | Full Review…
This curiously overpraised yet solid effort by two of the foremost satirists of contemporary Americana again finds director Joel and writer-producer Ethan surveying the wreckage of our national innocence.
David Baron
Fargo is the best movie ever made in Minnesota. Also the meanest. Mar 4, 2018 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Fargo is the best movie ever made in Minnesota. Also the meanest.
Chris Hewitt
Not only did the Coens return from the brink, but they gave us one of the most memorable (if not the most memorable) characters in modern cinema. Apr 9, 2016 | Full Review…
Not only did the Coens return from the brink, but they gave us one of the most memorable (if not the most memorable) characters in modern cinema.
Jason Bailey
Deceptive in its storytelling choices, economical with its plotting, and sly with its dialogue, this Oscar winner is truly incredible. Apr 29, 2014 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Deceptive in its storytelling choices, economical with its plotting, and sly with its dialogue, this Oscar winner is truly incredible.
Glenn Dunks
Returning to the horror-comic vein that launched their careers, director Joel Coen and producer Ethan Coen pepper their new picture with so much humor that the occasional bursts of sheer mayhem seem more ridiculous than revolting. Apr 21, 2014 | Full Review…
Returning to the horror-comic vein that launched their careers, director Joel Coen and producer Ethan Coen pepper their new picture with so much humor that the occasional bursts of sheer mayhem seem more ridiculous than revolting.
David Sterritt
You have to grant the Coens their due as creators of suspense, mood and plotting, and for their ability to color the most monstrous crimes with an undeniably funny sense of the absurd. Apr 21, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
You have to grant the Coens their due as creators of suspense, mood and plotting, and for their ability to color the most monstrous crimes with an undeniably funny sense of the absurd.
Gary Thompson
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