Fargo (1996) Critic Reviews

Frances McDormand enjoys the comedic role of her career.Read the full review

For all its exaggerated ordinariness, this film seems to start where others leave off.Read the full review

It's easy to admire what the Coens are trying to do in Fargo, but more difficult to actually like the film.Read the full review

With the perfect assist from their actors, all of whom are well in on the joke, this affectionate look at the frozen North brings the Coens back in from the cold.Read the full review

In the darkly humorous Fargo, iconoclastic filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen manage the precarious balancing act of respecting genre conventions and simultaneously pushing them to an almost surrealistic extreme. Very funny stuff.Read the full review

Dizzily rich, witty, and satisfying.Read the full review

Lean, mean and mordant black comedy.Read the full review

A crime gem that is darkly funny even when it's chilling -- and certain to become a classic.Read the full review

The brothers, who have always seemed fond of their characters, have never taken quite so overt a stand for life's simple joys.Read the full review