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Joel Coen

Highest Rated: 97% Down From the Mountain (2001)

Lowest Rated: 17% Gambit (2012)

Birthday: Nov 29, 1954

Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

With producer, co-writer and brother Ethan, writer-director Joel Coen is part of the most celebrated brother act in recent entertainment memory. He helmed a series of stylish, irreverent and cinema-savvy movies that never failed to charm critics while thrilling an initially small, but loyal band of viewers. Though they evinced a powerful fascination with film genres - particularly screwball comedy and film noir - the Coen Brothers earned a great deal of respect by the Hollywood community, despite their penchant to work outside the system. These self-conscious movies-within-movies possessed humorous camera movements, richly textured landscapes, and powerhouse performers spouting beautifully artificial dialogue. While some complained that the brothers were nothing more than slick stylists, the Coens nonetheless achieved a rare feat in entertainment: making the movies they wanted to make with little-to-no outside interference.

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Highest-Rated Movies

97% 86% Down From the Mountain
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95% 92% Fargo
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94% 88% Blood Simple
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93% 86% No Country for Old Men
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93% 90% Miller's Crossing
Watchlist 92% 75% The Tragedy of Macbeth Watchlist
92% 74% Inside Llewyn Davis
Watchlist 91% 87% Bridge of Spies Watchlist
91% 85% Raising Arizona
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Joel Coen

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The Tragedy of Macbeth 92% 75% 2021 Director, Screenwriter, Producer The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 89% 78% 2018 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Suburbicon 27% 26% 2017 Screenwriter Hail, Caesar! 86% 44% 2016 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Bridge of Spies 91% 87% 2015 Screenwriter Unbroken 52% 70% 2014 Screenwriter Inside Llewyn Davis 92% 74% 2013 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Gambit 17% 24% 2012 Screenwriter True Grit 95% 85% 2010 Director, Screenwriter, Producer A Serious Man 89% 68% 2009 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Burn After Reading 78% 65% 2008 Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editing No Country for Old Men 93% 86% 2007 Director, Writer, Producer Paris, je t'aime 86% 84% 2006 Director, Writer Romance & Cigarettes 53% 56% 2005 Executive Producer The Ladykillers 54% 43% 2004 Director, Producer, Screenwriter Bad Santa 78% 75% 2003 Executive Producer Intolerable Cruelty 76% 48% 2003 Director, Screenwriter The Man Who Wasn't There 81% 85% 2001 Director, Writer Down From the Mountain 97% 86% 2001 Self, Executive Producer O Brother, Where Art Thou? 78% 89% 2000 Director, Writer, Film Editing The Big Lebowski 80% 93% 1998 Director, Writer, Film Editing Fargo 95% 92% 1996 Director, Writer, Film Editing The Hudsucker Proxy 64% 79% 1994 Director, Screenwriter Barton Fink 89% 89% 1991 Director, Writer, Film Editing Miller's Crossing 93% 90% 1990 Director, Screenwriter, Producer
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