What is the best Coen Brothers movie of all time?

By YPB Team

From sun-baked crime thrillers and absurdist comedies to bleak existential westerns, the Coens have made films unlike anyone else in Hollywood. Which masterpiece tops your list?

  1. No Country for Old Men — ranked #11
    No Country for Old Men
    A chance encounter with a suitcase of drug money sets a relentless, unstoppable killer loose across the Texas borderlands.
  2. Fargo — ranked #22
    Fargo
    A hapless car salesman hires two criminals to kidnap his wife, setting off a catastrophically bungled chain of events in snowy Minnesota.
  3. The Big Lebowski — ranked #33
    The Big Lebowski
    A case of mistaken identity sends a laid-back LA bowler called the Dude on a spiraling adventure of kidnapping, nihilists, and White Russians.
  4. True Grit — ranked #44
    True Grit
    A stubborn 14-year-old girl hires a grizzled, hard-drinking US Marshal to track down her father's killer in the Indian Territory.
  5. Miller's Crossing — ranked #55
    Miller's Crossing
    A politically astute gangster tries to navigate a power struggle between two mob bosses while keeping his own loyalties hidden.
  6. Blood Simple — ranked #66
    Blood Simple
    A jealous Texas bar owner hires a sleazy private detective to kill his wife and her lover in this tense, twisty neo-noir debut.
  7. Raising Arizona — ranked #77
    Raising Arizona
    An ex-con and his policewoman wife kidnap one of a furniture tycoon's quintuplets when they discover they cannot have children of their own.
  8. Barton Fink — ranked #88
    Barton Fink
    A New York playwright arrives in Hollywood to write a wrestling picture and slowly descends into a nightmarish creative block at a decaying hotel.
  9. O Brother, Where Art Thou? — ranked #99
    O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    Three escaped Depression-era convicts embark on a madcap odyssey through the American South in search of hidden treasure.
  10. Burn After Reading — ranked #1010
    Burn After Reading
    A disc containing sensitive CIA memoirs falls into the hands of two dim-witted gym employees who attempt to sell it for personal gain.
  11. Inside Llewyn Davis — ranked #1111
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    A week in the life of a struggling folk singer navigating the Greenwich Village music scene of 1961 with little money, a borrowed cat, and big talent.

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