O Brother, Where Art Thou? Critic Reviews

It's a wild, whacked-out wonder. Coenheads rejoice.Read the full review

It is, all in all, a rambunctious and inspired ride in which the Coen brothers' voracious fascination with the arcana of American popular culture and their whiz-kid inventiveness reach new heights of whimsy.Read the full review

It's a new new thing, classic myth from both literature and the movies, commingled, set to great folk music, and untrammeled by any sense of predictability, urgency, realism or believability but hypnotic, graceful and seductive.Read the full review

Enlivening things to an unprecedented extent, the songs turn O Brother into perhaps the warmest production in the Coens' repertoire.Read the full review

A charming, if lightweight, Coen brothers escapade flecked by plenty of visual and performance grace notes.Read the full review

As a Coen brothers fan I hate to say this, but the movie's a collection of great bits and pieces rather than a complete work.Read the full review

A clever and satisfyingly abundant entertainment.Read the full review

Joyously unhinged and outrageously inventive.Read the full review

Of all unlikely possibilities, the team has finally made a movie that, for them, is on the tepid side.Read the full review