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Dominican Rep. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
36,733
Comedy. Adventure
Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber George 'Babyface' Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning ... [+]
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"It's a wild, whacked-out wonder. Coenheads rejoice" | POS |
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"A wildly original movie with astonishingly varied moods and influences." | POS |
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"It's a new new thing, classic myth from both literature and the movies, commingled, set to great folk music, and untrammeled by any sense of predictability, urgency, realism or believability but hypnotic, graceful and seductive." | POS |
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"'O Brother' contains sequences that are wonderful in themselves--lovely short films--but the movie never really shapes itself into a whole" | NEU |
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"A rambunctious and inspired ride in which the Coen brothers' voracious fascination with the arcana of American popular culture and their whiz-kid inventiveness reach new heights of whimsy." | POS |
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"This is the Coen brothers' most emotionally felt movie, and that's not meant as faint praise." | POS |
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"A charming, if lightweight, Coen brothers escapade flecked by plenty of visual and performance grace notes" | POS |
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"Often clever but fundamentally shallow, this shaggy-dog story is greatly enriched by its extraordinary bluegrass soundtrack" | NEU |
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"A remarkable film. From its performances on down to director of photography Roger Deakins' sun-baked, dirty-ochre cinematography, the film is all of a piece." | POS |
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"After making their two best features to date, 'Fargo' and 'The Big Lebowski,' the Coen brothers have surely come up with their worst." | NEG |
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"Joyously unhinged and outrageously inventive" | POS |
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"The film is worth seeing for George Clooney's performance. More than ever he seems like a Clark Gable for our time." | POS |
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