Joel Coen
Apple TV+ film review: The Tragedy of Macbeth
January 14, 2022 | David Farnor
Joel Coen nightmarish take on Shakespeare’s tragedy is stark, spellbinding cinema.Read More
VOD film review: Fargo (1996)
May 5, 2021 | David Farnor
Frances McDormand delivers an iconic turn in the Coen brothers’ darkly entertaining noir.Read More
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: A delightful mixtape of mini-masterpieces
November 10, 2018 | David Farnor
This delightful Western anthology is a finely tuned mixtape of mini-masterpieces.Read More
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs gets early UK cinema release
November 6, 2018 | David Farnor
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs will be released in UK cinemas this week before it hits Netflix.
The Coen brothers’ new movie, which started out as a Netflix original series, is a feature-length anthology of six short films, each tale … Read More
VOD film review: True Grit
August 7, 2017 | David Farnor
Hailee Steinfeld goes toe to toe with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon in the Coen brothers’ mature, poetic, gripping Western.Read More
VOD film review: Hail, Caesar!
July 17, 2016 | David Farnor
A golden slice of gloriously old-fashioned fun that more than earns its exclamation mark.Read More
VOD film review: Inside Llewyn Davis
May 21, 2014 | David Farnor
Oscar Isaac and the Coens are perfectly in tune for this mature, offbeat drama about failure, grief and guitars.Read More
VOD film review: No Country for Old Men
February 2, 2014 | David Farnor
Brooding and unforgiving, this tense noir Western grips throughout. Read More
VOD film review: A Serious Man
January 19, 2014 | David Farnor
Michael Stuhlbarg delivers a star-making turn in the Coen brothers’ honest, hilarious examination of faith.Read More
Netflix UK film review: Burn After Reading
September 12, 2013 | David Farnor
The Coen brothers’ short, sharp farce is 90 minutes of carefully crafted nonsense.Read More
