This eccentric, moonshine-soaked ode to old-timey joy feels like home to me.

| Mar 24, 2025

O Brother, Where Art Thou? might be a perfect move.

| Feb 22, 2024

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is probably not the first film that one thinks of when it comes to George Clooney or the Coen brothers but it's still a pretty fun satire and masterpiece over 23 years later.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 24, 2023

Simply the Coens luxuriating in a period setting and having a great time.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 3, 2022

..a remarkably well-crafted and well-written film, exactly what you would expect from Joel and Ethen Coen.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

This really is a Coen Brothers masterpiece.

| Jul 2, 2021

The Good News is something of a siren this movie can't resist.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 14, 2021

For all its limitations and the places where it feels like half a movie, that half is absolutely hilarious.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2020

The movie also contrives to encapsulate every con-on-the-run picture one has ever seen, as well as southern period crime dramas. Yet again, the Coens' cinematic alchemy has worked a treat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2018

The Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a Coen odyssey reworked as a tall tale in the folk song idiom of superstition, magic realism and religious mysticism and delivered with a mix of screwball goofiness and intellectual whimsy.

| Nov 18, 2016

Well up to the brothers' usual high standards.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 9, 2012

Everyone who has the capacity for abstract thought, raise your hands . . . and take this Coen brothers' journey.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 29, 2011

Even with its mock-pretentious parallelism to The Odyssey...O Brother, Where Art Thou? refuses to take itself seriously, which is both its principal failing and its charm. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 26, 2011

Teens might enjoy this offbeat Odyssey adaptation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2010

May not be the funniest or wackiest movie from Joel and Ethan Coen, but it is easily their most ambitious work to date.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2010

This lightly engaging trifle could have been more fun with a greater helping of the Coens' antic spirit.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 15, 2010

It has a remarkable (if playfully skewed) fidelity to the epic poem of mythical struggle, even if the filmmaking brother act never actually read Homer's work...

| Dec 6, 2009

In its best moments (of which there are a few), O Brother, Where Art Thou? has a twang to it.

| Aug 21, 2009

The Coens are like party acquaintances who keep changing the subject and then staring at you quizzically when you can't follow the thread, or when you stop wanting to follow it, but who then block all your exit routes from their obnoxious conversation.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 22, 2009

The ferociously one-dimensional characters here make this muddy ramble more of a guilty pleasure than a success.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008