Inside Llewyn Davis
. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
30 September 1978, Dallas, Texas, USA
20 June 1952, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2 September 1959, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
28 August 1962, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
27 February 1975, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
3 September 1984, Roseau, Minnesota, USA
20 September 1961, Arlington, Massachusetts, USA
13 October 1947, USA
24 December 1965, Brooklyn, New York, USA
23 November 1970, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
8 August 1940, Melbourne, Florida, USA
8 February 1955, Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
April 18, 2016
The brothers Coen and their cast reward us with unexpected riches from a place now long gone, faded like a minor chord on a battered guitar.
June 19, 2016
They beautifully and convincingly recreate the streets and coffee shops where he dwells, and seem intoxicated with the look and feel of those surroundings.
December 20, 2013
The Coen brothers have crafted another unique period piece.
August 13, 2016
This is the Coens in bittersweet mode, a little oblique, a little downbeat, and a little offbeat.
December 20, 2013
Celebrating and mourning a bygone moment, "Inside Llewyn Davis" is a tuneful wake intended to arouse us from our slumber to desires worth remembering.
December 24, 2013
This is one of the strangest yet most satisfying movie experiences of the year, one of those films in which you can't really appreciate what you've seen until it's over. You just have to trust that the trip is worth the trouble. And it is.
May 10, 2016
If failure and folly are this noble and touching, we're on Davis' side, even as the last chord is struck and the song is sung.
December 23, 2013
The broad, black humor of the Coens' early features has ripened over the years into a sadder, more philosophical brand of comedy (A Serious Man) that puts them in a class with Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch (yeah, you heard me).
February 28, 2017
It's a bleak tale of a less-than-loveable loser. But the combined effect of songs, lead performance and period detail make it one of the best, most heartfelt Coen movies yet.
December 31, 2015
Isaac's folk-singing Llewyn Davis may be an arrogant loser and the butt of a cosmic joke but he's something more than a cartoon. So is the movie ...
