Hail, Caesar!
The movie follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix in the early 1950s. And his biggest challenge comes when a movie star gets kidnapped and f the studio doesn't pay $100,000, it's the end of the line for him.
2 October 1949, Calistoga, California, USA
27 October 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 May 1944, Sunninghill, Buckingham, England, UK
20 December 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 June 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
27 December 1955
January 03, 2017
Even by Saturday night multiplex standards, the whole thing starts to feel frightfully slight. Amiable performances alone aren't enough.
February 12, 2016
The Coen brothers' new comedy isn't quite an homage to 1950s Hollywood, but it's not a spoof of it either -- it strikes that tone of crisp drollness that's their specialty and that some people misread as aloofness or contempt. But it's not.
February 05, 2016
The more 1950s movies a person has seen and the greater their love for Hollywood of 60+ years ago, the greater their appreciation will be of what Joel and Ethan have brought to the screen.
January 02, 2017
The Coens, for once, aren't interested in plot at all, instead choosing to luxuriate in the styles of yesteryear. Johansson and Channing Tatum get to do glamorous musical numbers; Clooney has a ball with his swords-and-sandals epic.
March 23, 2017
There are many, many moments in Hail, Caesar! that work great, are funny in the way that only the Coens can be funny, and capture the mood of the era perfectly.
February 18, 2016
Their latest, Hail, Caesar!, is their giddiest comedy to date, but it's also hit-and-miss within itself.
February 11, 2016
This is fairly amusing if you can get past the Coens' erasure of the anticommunist witch hunts, which destroyed hundreds of lives.
February 15, 2017
Hail, Caesar! tentatively nibbles at any form of commentary, mostly choosing to soar high on an absurdly enjoyable flight of nostalgic fancy.
December 31, 2016
If Llewyn Davis was about an artist learning to appreciate and collaborate with his audience, this reminds us that before the Coens were movie makers, they were movie watchers.
February 06, 2016
Not one of the Coens' major works, but it's a very enjoyable lark, especially for fans of old Hollywood.
December 31, 2016
It's easy to be charmed by the gang of actors. It's less compelling to wonder whether Mannix should continue to serve God or Mammon.
February 11, 2016
An unexpectedly sweet and utterly satisfying confection, a loving sendup of the Hollywood of yesteryear.
