Teens might enjoy this offbeat Odyssey adaptation.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2010

After making what are still probably their two best features, the Coen brothers came up with their worst, a piece of pop nihilism.

Full Review | Nov 7, 2007

Great dialogue, superb 'Scope camerawork from Roger Deakins, and a genuinely wondrous deus ex machina are among the delights.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2006

The Coens' usual arch deliberateness isn't quite as deliberate, and there's an appealing shagginess to some of the episodes and performances.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2002

Are the Coens just being smart alecks here, or are they saying something sourly profound about American popular culture?

Full Review | Sep 4, 2001

Simply, O Brother, Where Art Thou? has one of the richest and most satisfying soundtracks I've heard in years.

Full Review | Apr 13, 2001

It's a wild, whacked-out wonder.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 6, 2001

Leaves a sour taste.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 12, 2001

A roller-coaster ride with a goofy fun-house spirit, it's full of clever pranks.

Full Review | Jan 12, 2001

You have to admire how deep and irreverently O Brother goes into our culture to find its material.

Full Review | Jan 12, 2001

This is the funniest Coen brothers movie since 1996's Fargo.

Full Review | Jan 12, 2001

O Brother itself is just frustrating, mostly because we know what the Coens are capable of when truly inspired.

Full Review | Jan 12, 2001

A flattening pile of artifice and conceit disguised as a road comedy.

Full Review | Jan 12, 2001

Devilishly delightful.

Full Review | Jan 12, 2001

Praiseworthy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 12, 2001

An especially elaborate variation on Hee Haw.

Full Review | Jan 12, 2001

A giddy merriment blessed with the Coens' skewed signature wit and the year's best soundtrack.

Full Review | Jan 11, 2001

Mixing dark humor with high spirits, the brothers take some wild risks that pay off surprisingly well.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jan 11, 2001

The surprise is how much fruitful digression such plotlessness makes possible. With no particular place to go, this hobo of a movie is free to roam the damnedest places.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2000

A Coen brothers' also-ran is better than some filmmakers' best.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2000