There are two movies in the Coen Brothers’ oeuvre that tend to be cited as “the bad ones”: 2003’s Intolerable Cruelty and 2004’s The Ladykillers. I was a fan of the latter when I saw it in theaters and have continued to stand by it even though it was typically dismissed (it sits at 55% on Rotten Tomatoes) and has never had much of a re-evaluation. But the thing about opinions is that they should be revisited and reexamined. They shouldn’t calcify and be accepted as holy writ. I’m not the same person I was …
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