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Inside Llewyn Davis

2013

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Ethan Phillips ...

6.7

25,954

Drama Follow a week in the life of Llewyn Davis, a folk singer, as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"What an intense pleasure this film is, one of the Coens' best (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"This is a gorgeously made character study leavened with surrealistic dimensions both comic and dark"	POS
United States	Keith Uhlich Time Out	"It's the movie's profound undercurrent of sadness that gets to you"	POS
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"Perhaps most surprising to some viewers will be the pic’s surfeit of something the Coens have sometimes been accused of lacking: deep, heartfelt sincerity"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Enigmatic, exhilarating, irresistible (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Richard Corliss Time	"The brothers have created a character who's hard to love (...) Like the old songs in his repertoire, he's familiar, not new, but he quickly gets old and tiresome"	NEG
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It's a Coen brothers movie, which is to say a brilliant magpie's nest of surrealism, period detail and pop-culture scholarship."	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Brilliantly acted, gorgeously shot and altogether captivating. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"One thing's for sure about this raw provocation from the Coens: Like the music, the pain runs deep and true. You'll laugh till it hurts. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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