A memorable black comedy that, without a doubt, stands out as one of the best within the Coen brothers' impressive filmography. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2025

Immaculately plotted, beautifully written and superbly shot by British cinematography Roger Deakins, a longtime Coen collaborator, Fargo is a treasure.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 16, 2024

Fargo begins with a thunderous orchestral score by Carter Burwell as it beckons the audience towards the tragic events that are about to unfold.

| Original Score: A+ | Apr 23, 2024

Fargo is a masterwork, one of the best films we’ve ever gotten to dissect the uneasy balance behind good and evil in a world where everyone might come across as nice.

| Feb 22, 2024

The Coen brothers get back to basics with Fargo by going back to their home state of Minnesota for one of the best films in their career.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 15, 2024

Many cinephiles believe that Fargo is the Coen brothers’ magnum opus, and perhaps they are right, as the film has all the hallmarks of a masterstroke...

| Nov 28, 2023

A black-comedy slam-dunk.

| Jan 3, 2023

The spirit of comedy counterbalances the violence of the gangster film and trumps it hands down. Kind ordinariness and the wordy story clash victoriously with the irony of fate that lies in wait for enterprising hearts.

| May 3, 2022

Though Miller's Crossing may be the one Coen movie as poetic as it is absurd, Fargo is the brothers' smartest film and a matter-of-fact masterpiece.

| Apr 19, 2022

The performances by McDormand (bringing a great screen character to life) and Macy are superb.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 1, 2021

The North Dakota setting is icily evocative, the supporting characters perfectly pitched (remember Marge's old flame Mike Yanagita?), while the air of sadness that blankets the film like snow adds genuine profundity.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 14, 2021

Its brilliance [lies] in making the forces of law and order look as interesting and funny as the bad guys.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 10, 2021

McDormand aside, the secret might be the perfect pitch of the black comedy, the two elements in rare harmony.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 9, 2021

...where the Coens' craft fully matured.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 30, 2021

The Coens' dialogue is snappy and fun and they know how to ride the line between serious and funny. Their tendency towards moments of horrific violence doesn't always work for me but that is one of their signatures and I can usually get past it.

| Mar 24, 2021

The movie stands as a pseudo thesis of the things the Coen Brothers have been interested in all along...

| Mar 9, 2021

A riveting drama of death, dismemberment, small town criminality, and exaggerated accents.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 11, 2020

Fargo, as wonderful as it was, is a film I will never again need to revisit.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

A classic story of unique quirkiness, where the characters themselves are just as memorable as the events that unfold.

| Aug 5, 2020

One of the richest American films of the 1990s.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 19, 2020