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Coffee and Cigarettes
EMAILPRINTMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation / United Artists

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 35 critic reviews
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Based on 26 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Jim Jarmusch
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 14, 2004
DVD: September 21, 2004
Running Time: 96 minutes, B/W
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language
Starring Roberto Benigni, Cate Blanchett, Steve Buscemi, Steve Coogan, Alfred Molina, Bill Murray, Iggy Pop, and Tom Waits
A comic series of short vignettes in which Jarmusch delves into the normal pace of the world from an extraordinary angle, showing just how absorbing the obsessions, joys and addictions of life can be. (MGM/UA)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Portland Oregonian Karen Karbo
Like dark chocolate -- not semi-sweet, but the exotic, nearly black stuff -- Coffee and Cigarettes won't appeal to everyone. Jarmusch is the 70 percent cacao of contemporary filmmakers, and people who love this kind of chocolate swear by it.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Just when you're certain that Jarmusch is treading water with his borderline-tedious cleverness, something happens: Coffee and Cigarettes turns into a movie FULL of talk -- rich, supple, hilarious, masterfully orchestrated talk.
Read Full Review >Premiere Glenn Kenny
By the end the movie has pretty much ceased taking itself at all seriously, devolving into a nonchalant giggliness of the stoned variety that's completely apropos.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
It feels as if it has been recovered from a time capsule, and what larger meaning it may have is anyone's guess. But it is way cool -- and funny -- in ways that more expensive comedies trying harder rarely are.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
As the film goes along, themes and even lines of dialogue resurface, and Jarmusch's comic sensibilities grow more assured.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
Known for an elegant visual style, Jarmusch has a great gift for playing actors against one another, for finding complementary eccentrics (Murray and RZA) and uncovering rare gems (Bill Rice and Taylor Mead in "Champagne").
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
In Jarmusch's capable hands, the mundane has never been so delightful.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly John Powers
It's worth fidgeting through the mediocre stuff to get to three good pieces. In one, Cate Blanchett turns in a tour de force as both herself and her aggressive, resentful Aussie cousin in an awkward encounter that captures the pathological relationship between ordinary people and celebrities.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Jarmusch's use of yin/yang, dark/light and good/evil symbolism makes glorious if goofy sense.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
It's a movie about discomfort and distance, like an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" or "The Larry Sanders Show" shot in deadpan black-and-white.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
At the heart of most of these encounters is talk about the nature of relationships -- cousins, twins, and peers. Mostly, though, Jarmusch displays an unexpected interest in the ironies and banalities of fame.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Sometimes movies tire us by trying too relentlessly to pound us with their brilliance and energy. Here is a movie pitched at about the energy level of a coffee break. That the people are oddly assorted and sometimes very strange is not so very unusual, considering some of the conversations you overhear in Starbucks.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Sometimes sly and witty, sometimes dull and forced, Coffee and Cigarettes is Jim Jarmusch's testimony to the difficulties and delights of communication.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Jarmusch makes it a feast that plays like a haunting concept album.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
A series of vignettes...Some are weak, some are superb -- there's a priceless one with Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan as Brits with different feelings about learning they're cousins -- but they get better as they go along.
Read Full Review >New York Post Megan Lehmann
Indie hipster Jarmusch's distinctive brand of effortless cool and quirky humor percolate through each of 11 vignettes, all shot fairly statically in crisp, aesthetically pleasing black and white.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
What unites everything is Jarmuschs playful, hang-dog absurdism.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
The implication that beauty and meaning can be found in odd places at unlikely, idle moments resonates through this lovely film.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Like "Mystery Train" and "Night on Earth," this feature by Jim Jarmusch is a short story collection, but it's funnier and more formally adventurous than either--also ultimately greater than the sum of its parts.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Although these vignettes are unified visually -- they're all in black-and-white and they all have the same gorgeous, silky visual texture -- they were shot by several different cinematographers.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Many will be left scratching their heads at the point of the entire enterprise, but fans of Jarmusch's askew view will clink coffee mugs and toast to the glories of human eccentricity.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Very slight and, in the early going, slightly annoying, Coffee and Cigarettes is a long-borning Jarmusch project.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
The draggy ones make you restless while the best ones, like the movie's title ingredients, provide a buzz that doesn't last long enough.
Read Full Review >Empire Ian Freer
Steve Coogan and Alfred Molina deliver a terrific meditation on insincere actors.
Read Full Review >Variety Deborah Young
Holding the film together are simple but strong B&W visuals of offbeat types sitting around a table smoking and drinking java while they talk.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
C&C hardly coalesces, but then again, it doesn't try to--never more or less than what it appears to be, the film is a slow honky-tonk thud-beat, only intermittently punctuated by a joke or idea.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The lone gem of the anthology takes place in the loft of a trendy L.A. restaurant where a snooty Steve Coogan learns from starstruck Alfred Molina that the actors are cousins...This is the longest of the shorts, and has a payoff ending that nearly makes the whole thing worthwhile.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
Despite glimmers of wit and a hipper-than-thou cast, it's painstakingly smug, and smaller than the sum of its parts.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
While sometimes evocative, they don't add up to a satisfying movie any more than, as several characters are cautioned, coffee and cigarettes constitute a healthy lunch.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
The best way to watch this film is while sipping coffee in a café. Nicotine optional.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
The skits that comprise Coffee and Cigarettes aren't fully realized short pieces as much as riffs or fragments; their appeal is mostly in their stars.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.0 (out of 10) based on 26 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Peter H gave it a7:
A mildly entertaining story with several entertaining shorts. Several gems in the collection are Cate Blanchett's short and Steve Coogan and Alfred Molina's short.
Kenny M. gave it a1:
This movie has no story and no point whatsoever. I was only able to suffer through it because some of the very talented actors gave great performances and somehow breathed a little life into Jim Jarmusch's obscure, dry, hipper-than-now writing. The coogan/molina, and bill murray/gza/rza skits are mildly entertaining and a little funny, but the rest of the movie is boring and trite.
Mr. Holland gave it a10:
Some people are crazy. it's a beautiful film.
kjynn j. gave it a1:
Judging by this film, I expect Jarmusch's next masterpiece will be called Snot, and will feature his buddies, vying to outdo each other in hipness as they sneeze and deal with their nasal secretions. I can't wait.
James W. gave it a4:
Boring.
Vlad A. gave it an8:
Bob E., I liked the movie a lot but you're eating ish when you tell people to "examine" the critic's ratings. Those are there to guide people towards potentially more rewarding movies. Critics aren't gods we should pray to and agree with on every occasion. And by the way, 64 is good, but not excellent.
Marc K. gave it a2:
Quite possibly the worst movie I have seen in 2004...I'm only glad that I saw it on DVD rather than the movies, where I spent less money and could at least "break" from watching this horrorshow. I understand that Jarmusch is an acquired taste, and I obviously don't have that tastebud. Had some OK vignettes (Molina/Coogan was the best), but others were absolutely excruciating to sit through.
