Blood Simple (1984)
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Reviews Counted:61
Fresh:59
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.2/10
Synopsis: When a bar owner discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife, a complex web of deceit and double crosses ensues in a small Texas town. The Coen brothers' first picture is... [More]
Starring: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh
Director: Joel Coen
Reviews for Blood Simple
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The Coens remain fastidiously indifferent to the plight of their creations, the better to concentrate on the dazzle of their doom Full Review |
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Watch this film, and these film makers, closely. Neither will disappoint. Full Review |
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An inordinately good low-budget film noir thriller. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A deadpan gothic thriller best described as the steamy, hardboiled fiction of Jim Thompson and James M. Cain filtered through two film-school brats. Full Review |
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5/5 |
As black, sinful and nasty as a weekful of Hitchcocks, this is as fresh and intoxicating now as it was back then. In a word: deadly. Full Review |
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The movie remains mired in a smart-alecky film-school sensibility. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Blood Simple isn't bad, just self-consciously poky and austere -- a James M. Cain homage, rural-art-film division. Full Review |
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A remarkably assured debut for Coen. Full Review |
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5/5 |
A stunning debut, and arguably one of the Coens' two best features, this Gothic noir introduced the wry, sardonic, and playful approach that would shape their future work, and launched the screen career of the brilliant Frances McDormand. Full Review |
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The script is so tight you can feel it screwing into the back of your neck. Full Review |
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B+ |
The movie is as dark, ironic and fatalistically comic as modern film noir comes. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Com um estilo marcante já no filme de estréia, os irmãos Coen criam uma obra noir tensa, envolvente e que faz do absurdo uma de suas principais armas.
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A+ |
A good filmmaker can make grim material watchable, but it takes a great one (or two) to make it fun. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Black humor, abundant originality and a brilliant visual style make Joel Coen's Blood Simple, a directorial debut of extraordinary promise. Full Review |
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A- |
...for all its delirious impudence and film school showiness, it's so clearly a movie made by guys crazy about moviemaking. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Stylish shoestring noir, and an admirable filmmaking debut for the brothers Coen. Full Review |
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1/4 |
The Coens' complicated sense of the surreal is consistently entertaining, down to the fleeting, oddball cameos and distinctly weird scripting. Full Review |
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B+ |
This first Blood is worth a second look (or, of course, a first viewing) by fans who like their plot simple, bloody and completely engaging. Full Review |
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