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A film that really only needs a one-line introduction: the latest film from the Coen Brothers, one of the most creative film partnerships in modern cinema. Having established their reputation with an unbroken string of wonderfully off the wall works – Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Man Who Wasn't There – they stumbled a little with Intolerable Cruelty and their unnecessary renake of The Ladykillers, but bounced back with a vengeance with the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men and last year returned to their quirky early style with Burn After Reading. Their latest work has been acclaimed as one of their best yet, described by Philip French in The Observer as "at once laugh-out-loud funny and deeply serious, troubling and satisfying, warm and bleak, both respectful of the Jewish heritage and mocking its restrictions and false comforts."