88
Metascore
26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertRotates its story through satire, comedy, suspense and violence, until it emerges as one of the best films I've ever seen.
- 100Film.comFilm.comUniquely fascinating.
- 90Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonFrances McDormand enjoys the comedic role of her career.
- 90VarietyVarietyIn 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.
- 88San Francisco ExaminerG. Allen JohnsonSan Francisco ExaminerG. Allen JohnsonThe Coens haven't been this sharp, focused and fluid since their first film. This is "Blood Simple's" promise fulfilled.
- 80Film.comElizabeth WeitzmanFilm.comElizabeth WeitzmanThis mordant, macabre look at the American obsession with fast food, television and murder is icily funny.
- 80Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumWhat mainly registers is the quiet desperation and simple pleasures of ordinary midwestern lives, the fatuous ways that people cover up their emotional and intellectual gaps, and the alternating pointlessness and cuteness of human existence. This may be a masterpiece of sorts, but it left me feeling rotten.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt's easy to admire what the Coens are trying to do in Fargo, but more difficult to actually like the film.
- 50SalonSalonTo the extent that the joke is on us, the audience, and the decadent taste we've acquired for flashy violence, it works; point taken.
- 40TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissAll attitude and low aptitude.