Hail, Caesar!

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “Hail, Caesar! is pure, popcorn fun — a visual treat, a comedic tour de force and a sublime and sly slice of satire.”

  Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times · 100

• “If the Coen brothers’ dramas are cautionary tales, their comedies are veritable how-to guides for people who can’t help but enjoy a mirthless chuckle at the humility of human existence. Yeah, the joke is on us, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t funny.”

  David Ehrlich, Slate · 100

• “An exhilarating switchup: A comic fable that’s both deftly clever and irrepressibly goofy.”

  Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com · 100

• “Underneath the laff-riot and the Hollywood satire, Hail, Caesar! is a curiously delicate film built on profound affection for American movies and the illusions they build, and loaded with in-jokes the mainstream audience will grasp incompletely or not at all.”

  Andrew O'Hehir, Salon · 100

• “A comedy, and a scintillating, uproarious one, filled with fast and light touches of exquisite incongruity in scenes that have the expansiveness of relaxed precision, performed and timed with the spontaneous authority of jazz.”

  Richard Brody, The New Yorker · 100