What is the best Coen Brothers movie of all time?

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

A chance encounter with a suitcase of drug money sets a relentless, unstoppable killer loose across the Texas borderlands.

2

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

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

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

A politically astute gangster tries to navigate a power struggle between two mob bosses while keeping his own loyalties hidden.

6

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

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

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?

Three escaped Depression-era convicts embark on a madcap odyssey through the American South in search of hidden treasure.

10

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

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.