Miller's Crossing

Pros: Direction, Story, Acting, Cinematography, Score

Cons: Not a mindless action movie

The Bottom Line: An interesting look at prohibition gangsters with premium elements making up a sparkling whole. Modern day film noir.

Review: Miller's Crossing (1990) “Is there a point - or are you just brushing up on your small talk?” Tom Reagan Miller’s Crossing is one of those movies you may have to watch a few times to get the story straight. If you bother ...

Pros: intelligent, witty, unpredictable

Cons: runs against the grain of a lot of gangster dramas

The Bottom Line: This is a must-see.

Review: Those words, or words to that effect, open Miller's Crossing, a dark comedy/drama, from the Coen Brothers, whose Raising Arizona was as zany as Blood Simple was creepy, and whose Fargo eventually brought these brothers the recognition they most ...

Pros: Coens' Direction/Script, Language, Cinematography, Editing, Music, Look, Tone, Sound, & Cast.

Cons: None.

The Bottom Line: Miller's Crossing is a Flat-Out, Stylish, Bloody, and Eerie Masterpiece from the Coen Brothers.

Review: Following the success of 1987's quirky comedy Raising Arizona, Joel and Ethan Coen were set to create their next feature film. During writing their new project, the brothers suffered writer's block and would eventually write their experience for ...

Pros: Byrne, Harden, Turturro, cinematography, crisp dialogue

Cons: Ummm...not enough Buscemi?

The Bottom Line: Highly recommended. The film that really started it all for the Coen brothers, and a classic gangster movie.

Review: Is there honor among thieves? So goes the central question of an early film from the Coen brothers. When they made it, the Coen’s were still running out of the public eye – their quirky masterpieces, “Raising Arizona” and “Fargo” had ...

Pros: Superb, complex and amazing

Cons: Stagey; can be an acquired taste for those Coen Bros. uninitiates

Review: Set in Prohibition 20's in an unidentified, decaying town, "Miller's Crossing" is one of the best films of the 1990's, for my money the Coen Brothers' masterpiece and far superior to "Fargo".

The movie opens with a shot...

Pros: Great storyline....

Cons: none, nada, zip, zilch

Review: Some people say..."Scuse me while I kiss the sky..."

I am different.

I say..."Scuse me while I genuflect and kiss the ring of the Coen Brothers for they shall lead us out of the darkness and bathe us in everlasting...

Pros: I truly love the look of this film. It's invigorating. It is rich and it makes you want to leap into the frame, rolling around in its burnished hues. But cinematography only does not a movie make! Miller's Crossing is a masterpiece due to its buzzing energ

Cons: The film has been criticised as emotionally empty. Oddly enough, though its among my favorite films and I find it deeply moving, I can see what people are getting at -- until the final scene, it's merely an engaging story with great visuals, sans heart. Th

Review: By Max Scheinin.

In Miller's Crossing's best scene -- the one you see excerpted on the cover of its box -- Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne), gun in hand, strides after a fidgeting, frightened small-time strings-pulling loser named Bernie (John...

Pros: Everything about the movie.

Cons: It always ends and I have to rewind. I really need a DVD player.

Review: Every time I walk in to a Coen brothers movie, I prepare myself for disappointment. Why? Because everything they've done up until now has set my expectations so high that I can't imagine that they'll do it to me again.

One of the movies that...

Pros: This film is pure art. Wonderfull acting, production, and directing.

Cons: You dont really care about anyone but i dont think you were supposed to.

The Bottom Line: If you want to satisfy your ADD, go rent something with Chris Kataan. If you want to see what real talent makes a movie look like..watch this.

Review: It is hard to say what is the Coen Bros.' masterpiece since they could make a great film in their sleep, but i have to say that I can watch Miller's Crossing over and over and never get bored. The story is pretty simple(at first glance anyway). Alcoholic...

Pros: Gabriel Byrne is outstanding, excellent screenplay and direction

Cons: A little overly complicated, an awful lot to follow

Review: The Coen brothers twisted homage to gangster films improves on their elaborate, trashy crime flick Blood Simple by creating better characters and comedy much funnier yet darker. This lesser seen film from the brothers is almost a combination of...