It’s the kind of delightfully ironic odyssey that the Coens mastered during their careers, one that understands the dark humor and fractured pathos of failure and determination

Full Review | Feb 22, 2024

Inside Llewyn Davis is another Coen Brothers masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 29, 2023

This is the Coens in bittersweet mode, a little oblique, a little downbeat, and a little offbeat.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2023

In this new story about a loser, the filmmakers allow themselves to film alongside the protagonist and not “above" him, at least for a good part of the movie. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 14, 2023

The problem is the film is as aimless and unmotivated as the couch-crashing struggling artist you're picturing. His crappy life is your crappy experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2023

While it may not be the best Coen brothers movie, it is undeniably theirs.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

Filled with darkly comic and cynical observations about its period and its soulful performer [...], the film's sharply observed tale is among the Coens’ most carefully crafted and elusive yet.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 19, 2022

Enough can’t be said about Isaac’s performance in this film. He perfectly captures the asshole personality and really makes you hate him, but then when it’s time to perform a song, he looks deep into your eyes and melts your heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 21, 2022

The characters are written neatly and Oscar Isaac is a master at his work. Inside Llewyn Davis is a movie about the pains of life, and how for must of us it just doesn't work out as we thought, yet there's beauty in it. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 16, 2022

Isaac's performance is superb as the complex musician.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 20, 2021

OK. I won't call the Coens movies souless anymore.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2021

A fictional look at the vibrant Greenwich Village folk scene but this isn't a history, it's a feel. It gives us an under-the-covers look at struggles and naked ambition it takes to get noticed.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

It's not until almost halfway through that the odd occurrences and even stranger characters begin to surface.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 3, 2020

Isaac and the Coen brothers have imparted their character with no shortage flaws, but he should be immensely empathetic for anyone who's ever attempted to carve out their own place in the overwhelmingly world of music.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2020

The film will appeal to true Coen purists.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 12, 2020

Out of all the Coen Brothers' films, Inside Llewyn Davis has to be their most heartfelt and sentimental film I've watched.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2020

Even with Oscar Isaac's good performance, it doesn't have the energy or dynamism that characterizes the Coens' style. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 25, 2020

Goofy plot digressions and a Kerouac-worthy subplot deliver the season's most original comedy/drama...

Full Review | Jun 19, 2020

Inside Llewyn Davis manipulates those narratives to create an amalgam that seems determined to deform them. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | May 13, 2020

The Coen Brothers do create one of their most complex characters in Llewyn Davis.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.7/5 | Nov 21, 2019