Miller's Crossing (1990)

Date watched: January 7

Review: The Coen Brothers have got to be some of the best movie-makers in Hollywood. With great movies such as The Ladykillers, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, it's hard to go wrong with these guys. Miller's Crossing sounds like one of their more obscure movies, but it's their best work barring Fargo. The acting is top notch, and best of all, comedy is inserted perfectly as the Coen brothers do best. It's a mobster movie from the Depression era. Pointing out individual performances would be wrong, because it's impossible to point out flaws in the acting. With all the plots, counterplots, subplots, and whatever plots going on, it seems like it would be hard to discern what is going on in the movie, but the movie is perfectly scripted and well explained.

Rating: 9.4/10.0