There's plenty of snappy plotting and double-crossing around it, with bitter twists and well-delivered, wonderfully literate, hard-nosed dialogue.
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01/01/00
Miller's Crossing (1990)
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Reviews Counted:50
Fresh:45
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: An Irish gangster (Albert Finney) and his trusted lieutenant (Gabriel Byrne) and counselor find their domination of the town threatened by an ambitious Italian underboss (Jon Polito). Just as this... [More]
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, J.E. Freeman, Marcia Gay Harden
Director: Joel Coen
Reviews for Miller's Crossing
Top CriticUp there with the Coen brothers' finest work.
03/11/08
Top CriticIt's arguably the US mainstream's first art movie since Days of Heaven; and quite wonderful.
06/24/06
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05/29/04
Top CriticIt takes place in an artificial world constructed largely from the mythology of other movies, and, though it's both seamless and stylish, some find it a little too self-conscious for its own good.
11/06/07
Top CriticNo review available.
06/21/04
If Miller's Crossing isn't my favourite movie, I don't know what is.
05/06/03
No review available.
12/02/04
No review available.
12/18/03
An amazingly entertaining film, loaded with zesty dialogue, gorgeously staged sequences and a bevy of wild characters.
01/01/00
As for that story, it's good enough, but honestly I fail to see what everyone's all worked up about.
02/14/02
No review available.
11/06/05
Perhaps the best the Coens have to offer -- stylish, funny, harrowing and brilliantly shot.
10/13/05
No review available.
01/08/05
Pays homage to the crime novels of Dashiell Hammett.
05/26/04
Crossing is the kind of movie that benefits from a second sitting, to get a complete grip on the plot.
01/01/00
Loosley based on Hammett's novel and Chicago's Capone-O'Bannion gang war, the film is more impressive visually than thematically, though new angle of placing Irish, Italian, and Jewish gangsters in the same tale is intriguing.
12/27/06
A stylized reworking of the generic gangster film.
08/30/04
The Coens play this icy gangster tale mostly straight, but they can't help throwing in a few of their dark, comic explosions; it's one of their best, most cohesive films and it holds up to repeated viewings.
09/18/05
Crystalline filmmaking.
01/27/03
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