Coen Brothers
The Pictures
Weird Sisters? Make That Twisted Sisters
How the British actress Kathryn Hunter used her contortionist skills and cigarette voice to steal Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”
By Henry Alford
The Front Row
What to Stream Over Thanksgiving: The Best Film by the Coen Brothers
“The Big Lebowski,” which is set during the Gulf War, extends far beyond its immediate scope of activity to open extraordinary depths of political reflection.
By Richard Brody
The Front Row
Review: The Coen Brothers’ “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Is Six Giddy, Cruel Twists on the Western
In each episode, the Coen brothers expand the Western beyond movie conventions or practical politics and into the absolute—the picturesque ridiculousness of life that ends, often suddenly, with death.
By Richard Brody