Fresh
Their latest, Hail, Caesar!, is their giddiest comedy to date, but it's also hit-and-miss within itself.
Christy Lemire, ChristyLemire.com
Hail, Caesar!
Lights. Camera. Abduction.
2016 · 1h 46m · PG-13
Comedy, Mystery
Directed by
Joel Coen
,
Ethan Coen
,
Peter Jason
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Hail, Caesar!
Overview
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
Director and cast
- Joel Coen Director
- Ethan Coen Director
- Peter Jason Director
- Josh Brolin as Eddie Mannix
- George Clooney as Baird Whitlock
- Alden Ehrenreich as Hobie Doyle
- Ralph Fiennes as Laurence Laurentz
- Scarlett Johansson as DeeAnna Moran
- Tilda Swinton as Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker
- Channing Tatum as Burt Gurney
- Frances McDormand as C. C. Calhoun
- Jonah Hill as Joe Silverman
- Veronica Osorio as Carlotta Valdez
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The Coen brothers' new comedy isn't quite an homage to 1950s Hollywood, but it's not a spoof of it either -- it strikes that tone of crisp drollness that's their specialty and that some people misread as aloofness or contempt. But it's not.
Alison Willmore, BuzzFeed News
Fresh
This is fairly amusing if you can get past the Coens' erasure of the anticommunist witch hunts, which destroyed hundreds of lives.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
An unexpectedly sweet and utterly satisfying confection, a loving sendup of the Hollywood of yesteryear.
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
Fresh
Not one of the Coens' major works, but it's a very enjoyable lark, especially for fans of old Hollywood.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
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