Thursday, May 12, 2016

Hail, Caesar!



In the early 1950s, Eddie Mannix is busy at work trying to solve all the problems of the actors and filmmakers at Capitol Pictures. His latest assignments involve a disgruntled director, a singing cowboy, a beautiful swimmer and a handsome dancer. As if all this wasn't enough, Mannix faces his biggest challenge when Baird Whitlock gets kidnapped while in costume for the swords-and-sandals epic "Hail, Caesar!" If the studio doesn't pay $100,000, it's the end of the line for the movie star.

Initial releaseFebruary 1, 2016 (USA)
Box office62.4 million USD
Critic reviews

The Coen brothers conjure up nostalgic joy from this hilarious knockabout homage to the golden age of film. Full review
Mark Kermode·The Guardian
An inside-showbiz lark that regards the 1950s studio system with the utmost skepticism even as it becomes an expression of movie love at its purest. Full review
Justin Chang·Variety
The Coens love these debauched children and the genre films they turn out with such batshit glee.Full review
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
It’s a typically sly, off-center comedy, once again set against the machinery of the motion-picture business. Full review
Manohla Dargis·New York Times
As lush, absurd and damnably seductive as the world it portrays, “Hail, Caesar!” doesn’t seek to praise old Hollywood, exactly. But it doesn’t want to bury it, either. Full review
Ann Hornaday·Washington Post
Hail, Caesar! is a funny and madcap, if unfocused, farcical salute to Golden Age Hollywood from the Coen Brothers. Full review
Sandy Schaefer·Screen Rant
This is indeed a Coens movie, merely one set in a cheerier key than any of its predecessors. Full review
Christopher Orr·The Atlantic
To all those who would characterize the Coens as smug misanthropes: Enjoy this bounty of ammunition. Full review
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky·A.V. Club
Hail, Caesar! doesn’t completely hang together. But Johansson in a mermaid’s tail? Really, why else make movies—or go to them? Full review
Stephanie Zacharek·Time
With so many good — no, fabulous — elements, why does so much of Hail, Caesar! feel so overdeliberate? Full review
David Edelstein·Vulture


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