10 Spectacular Movies That Helped Redeem 2016

The Coen Brothers – despite the varied nature of their filmography – are somewhat contentious, audiences tending to quarrel whenever a new project manifests itself. Case and point: Hail, Caesar! maintains only ‘45%’ on Rotten Tomatoes for audience approval, most average moviegoers never quite knowing what to make of the directors’ ongoing work.

That said, Hail, Caesar! deserves more consideration. It’s a wonderfully funny, charming mystery movie, predicated upon dozens of memorable performances, idiosyncratic dialogue, and countless memorable sequences. It’s essentially a pastiche of post-war Hollywood cinema, eccentric but never encumbered by its substantial ambitions.

That said, it’s not necessarily their greatest accomplishment – it’s no Barton Fink, nor Great Lebowski – but even the most middling Coen brothers’ effort is spades above the competition.