Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Jul 10, 2026 5/5

Fargo remains gripping decades later not just for its craft and darkly comic story but for the way it turns myth-making – storytelling and deception – into its central preoccupation.

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Marc Horton Edmonton Journal Apr 15, 2026 5/5

The dialogue is as good as it can get, funny because it is so accurate and true -- and as ordinary as the chat we have with the neighbor as we shovel the sidewalk.

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Lee Bacchus The Province (Vancouver) Apr 14, 2026 4/4

Is Fargo the best American movie to hit theatres this year? You're darn tootin'.

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Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Mar 9, 2026 10/10

30 years after the Cutlass emerged from the blizzard, Fargo is still the most honest American movie I know about the relationship between small human failure and catastrophic harm.

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Adrian Martin Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 4/5

I think the film is a very careful meditation on what moral position can be meaningfully, intelligently taken, in this mad, apocalyptic world of ours.

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Fico Cangiano CineXpress Podcast Mar 27, 2025 4/5

A memorable black comedy that, without a doubt, stands out as one of the best within the Coen brothers' impressive filmography. [Full review in Spanish]

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Tom Ryan The Sunday Age Jul 16, 2024 4/4

Immaculately plotted, beautifully written and superbly shot by British cinematography Roger Deakins, a longtime Coen collaborator, Fargo is a treasure.

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Sarah Cortinaz InSession Film Apr 23, 2024 A+

Fargo begins with a thunderous orchestral score by Carter Burwell as it beckons the audience towards the tragic events that are about to unfold.

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Danielle Solzman Solzy at the Movies Feb 15, 2024 5/5

The Coen brothers get back to basics with Fargo by going back to their home state of Minnesota for one of the best films in their career.

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Dimitris Passas PopMatters Nov 28, 2023

Many cinephiles believe that Fargo is the Coen brothers’ magnum opus, and perhaps they are right, as the film has all the hallmarks of a masterstroke...

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Dennis Harvey 48 Hills Jan 3, 2023

A black-comedy slam-dunk.

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Alain Masson Positif May 3, 2022

The spirit of comedy counterbalances the violence of the gangster film and trumps it hands down. Kind ordinariness and the wordy story clash victoriously with the irony of fate that lies in wait for enterprising hearts.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Nov 1, 2021 4/4

The performances by McDormand (bringing a great screen character to life) and Macy are superb.

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Jun 14, 2021 5/5

The North Dakota setting is icily evocative, the supporting characters perfectly pitched (remember Marge's old flame Mike Yanagita?), while the air of sadness that blankets the film like snow adds genuine profundity.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Jun 10, 2021 5/5

Its brilliance [lies] in making the forces of law and order look as interesting and funny as the bad guys.

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Danny Leigh Financial Times Jun 9, 2021 5/5

McDormand aside, the secret might be the perfect pitch of the black comedy, the two elements in rare harmony.

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Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Apr 30, 2021 4/4

...where the Coens' craft fully matured.

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Sarah Brinks Battleship Pretension Mar 24, 2021

The Coens' dialogue is snappy and fun and they know how to ride the line between serious and funny. Their tendency towards moments of horrific violence doesn't always work for me but that is one of their signatures and I can usually get past it.

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Adam Nayman The Ringer Mar 9, 2021

The movie stands as a pseudo thesis of the things the Coen Brothers have been interested in all along...

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Sep 11, 2020 10/10

A riveting drama of death, dismemberment, small town criminality, and exaggerated accents.

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