Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
From the camera angles to the set design, everything is calculated to make the viewer feel superior to the cloddish, geeky characters on display.
– Dave Kehr,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr 2014
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It's another daring black comedy by one of the most consistently inventive moviemaking teams of the last decade, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen.
– Gene Siskel,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Apr 2014
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A few scenes go around in circles, as if snow-blind, and the humor may be too inward and contorted for some tastes. But McDormand brings order to the weirdness and warms it up.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
21 Apr 2014
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A small, supremely satisfying film. Heck and you betcha, it is.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
21 Apr 2014
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Fargo, with its grotesque murders and cheery detectives, is a cold gem that takes us to the far north. Its seemingly pitiless light opens up the realms of darkness concealed beneath that world of white.