The laughs come easy, but so do the extravagant storytelling indulgences. The film slips with disorganization and too many random and fanciful coincidences.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2024

The Coen’s prowessness for balance is also important to note here, as it’s never overtly satirical. It’s jabs toward Hollywood are limited and the balance of recognizing the chaos but also giving us grounded humanity results in the film being playful...

| Original Score: A- | Aug 2, 2024

This one really hammers in why the Coens’ tonal balance is so hard to match, as this one hides any direct cynicism for the industry behind an ornate dedication to the fiercely dedicated weirdos who keep movies going.

| Feb 22, 2024

Hail, Caesar! is a brilliant satire depicting a bygone era of filmmaking that we'll never see again.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 25, 2023

The Coen mix of subtle wit and broad slapstick is all over the film, which hopscotches across stories and soundstages at a snappy pace, and they poke fun at everything except the joy of movies.

| Oct 6, 2023

Hail, Caesar! is pure Coen Brothers through and through.

| Aug 1, 2023

“Hail, Caesar!” is very much an homage to classic moviemaking. It's a wacky missing person caper. It's a story of a man navigating personal and spiritual crises. It's all of those things plus some.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The outward comic setup serves as a springboard for something far more existential. Finding the core of the film's meaning requires the viewer to look beyond the occasional silliness onscreen.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

Hail, Caesar! is one of the decades most gleeful and fulsome glances back to Old Hollywood with some of our most popular contemporary players.

| Original Score: 98/100 | Aug 22, 2021

The Coen brothers prove they're Hollywood's biggest anoraks with a sublime and hilarious swipe at its past...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2021

The Coens' Hail Caesar! is in its element when it is spoofing the film industry, religion and American institutions generally.

| Feb 26, 2021

The satirical portrait of Hollywood's Golden Age with the underlying message about the importance of movies should appeal to cinephiles but may have less impact on casual viewers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Hail, Caesar! may not go down as one of the best Coen Brothers movie, but even less than their best is still better than damn near every other offering out there.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 3, 2020

A satirical comedy of the old Hollywood that tries to fly, but with the slightest difference that it never takes off. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 26, 2020

I didn't know what it was.

| Apr 30, 2020

I kept being like, "wait, this is a Coen brothers movie?"

| Apr 30, 2020

Hail, Caesar! is a love letter to old Hollywood that is equally effective as a send up.

| Apr 6, 2020

Come for Ralph Fiennes trying to coach a hopeless Alden Ehrenreich in the art of saying "Would that it were so simple" and stay for Channing Tatum hamming it up with a fluffy pooch!

| Apr 4, 2020

Scintillating, uproarious, substantial, and playfully personal.

| Mar 23, 2020

Hail, Caesar is essentially a farce, a chance to hang the scaffolding of a plot around masterful musical numbers and repeated moments of high comedy.

| Feb 13, 2020