Miller's Crossing (DVD) Reviews

Miller's Crossing is an intrinsic and often complicated gangster thriller that focuses on one man's involvement with the gangs in an unnamed American city, choosing adviser Tom Regan as the protagonist as creators the Coen brothers show once again just why they're the best at the thoughtful and darkly comic thriller. There's not so much ...  Read the complete review

Miller's Crossing is another little known classic film from Joel and Ethan Coen, the genius duo behind Fargo and No County for Old Men. It's a shame this isn't more widely known, because it's actually a very fine and meticulous film with some of the most beautiful camerawork I've ever seen, some subtle and brooding acting and a film noir ...  Read the complete review

Miller's Crossing is a 1990 film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring Gabriel Byrne and Albert Finney. In an unnamed city, in prohibition era America, Tom Reagan (Byrne) is an advisor to Irish gangster kingpin Leo O'Bannon. When Italian gangster Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito) advises Leo that he intends to ...  Read the complete review

Miller's Crossing is the third feature film from directors/writers Joel and Ethan Coen. Released in 1990 it is a crime thriller starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finny and Marcia Gay Harden. The film is set in prohibition-era USA and deals with a growing conflict between two rival gangs. The main character Tom Reagan (Gabriel ...  Read the complete review

One of the earlier Coen films, and one of their best - I'd put it up there with The Big Lebowski and No Country For Old Men in my personal top three! It's one of their less goofy offerings - but this being the Coens, that doesn't mean there's no humour, it just means that the humour is on the whole darker than ...  Read the complete review

There was a line in a review of The Big Lebowski a few years back that said "In a perfect world every movie would be a Coen Bros movie". Their films may not cater to all audience tastes but they rarely put a foot wrong and Millers Crossing is the film where the duo really made their mark on cinema. The film is a hark ...  Read the complete review

Take the most well-known Coen films such as 'The Big Lebowski,' 'Fargo,' and the recent 'Oh Brother;' remove the comedic aspects, creativity, and uniquely intriguing characters, and you'll have a good idea of what 'Miller's Crossing' is. This is the Coen brothers attempt at a plot movie. ...  Read the complete review

“Miller’s Crossing” Miller’s Crossing is a superb, gangster like movie and was directed by the fabulous Coen brothers in 1990. The Coen brothers have directed a number of very successful films including ‘Fargo’, ‘Blood Simple’ and ‘The Big Lebowski’. Now, when ...  Read the complete review

A lopsided toupee, agreements and double cross, hats on, hats off, machine guns to the tune of “Danny Boy”, savage beatings, fixed fights, exiting windows, raids on clubs, twists and turns, trips to the woods and pleas for mercy. Add to this a haunting score, a brilliant script, a top drawer cast and the end result ...  Read the complete review

Although conceived as something as a pastiche of gangster movies, MILLER'S CROSSING emerged as perhaps the greatest gangster movie of them all - unique in tone, but right up there with GOODFELLAS, the original SCARFACE, or THE GODFATHER. Set at the height of 1930s prohibition and Irish/Italian mob rivalries, MILLER'S ...  Read the complete review

Miller's Crossing is the third film directed by the Coen brothers (Joel and Ethan). It is a gangster film set in the 1930's and centres around a freewheeling gangster (played by Gabriel Byrne), who get's caught amongst gang war in a unamed American city. The chracters are all played with absolute perfection, included Albert ...  Read the complete review