This spring we felt like watching as many Coen Brothers films as we could in chronological order. I had already seen 11 of the 18, which actually surprised me. Four films didn't get viewed, sadly, due to not being able to easily watch (and we didn't want to pay a fee to rent). But I did watch four films for the first time. My favorite of the bunch is still O Brother Where Art Thou, simply because of the glorious combination of Homer's story, the 1930s time period, and the incredible music. All in all, it was a fun experience. Here's the complete list of all Coen Brothers feature films, followed by my rankings. We didn't watch the films highlighted in yellow.
- Blood Simple (1984)
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- Miller's Crossing (1990)
- Barton Fink (1991)--we weren't able to watch
- The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
- Fargo (1996)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
- The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
- Intolerable Cruelty (2003)--we weren't able to watch
- The Ladykillers (2004)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Burn After Reading (2008)
- A Serious Man (2009)--we weren't able to watch
- True Grit (2010)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
- Hail, Caesar! (2016)
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
#14 The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Rating: Q=5, P=4 / Average OJScale 1=3, Scale 2=2, Scale 3=2, Scale 4=2
#13 Blood Simple (1984)
Rating: Q=6, P=4 / Average OJ
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#12 Burn After Reading (2008)
Rating: Q=6, P=5 / Average OJ
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#11 Miller's Crossing (1991)
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Rating: Q=6, P=6 / Average OJ
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Rating: Q=6, P=6 / Average OJ
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#5 The Big Lebowski (1998)
Rating: Q=6, P=6 / Average OJ
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#4 Fargo (1996)
Rating: Q=8, P=6 / Can't Get Enough
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#3 True Grit (2010)
Rating: Q=6, P=7 / Comfy Old Standard
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#2 No Country For Old Men (2007)
Rating: Q=7, P=7 / Can't Get Enough
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#1 O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
Rating: Q=8, P=8 / Obsession
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