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100If you are squeamish, here is the film to make you squeam.
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100It's like watching Alfred Hitchcock try to solve a Rubik's cube in a roadside diner.
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100All in all, Blood Simple looks better than ever.
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100Filled with wonderful performances, especially by Hedaya and Walsh, Blood Simple remains a tight, beautifully ugly, neo-noir classic.
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100Savor their technique and the sizzling performances of Frances McDormand as an adulterous wife, Dan Hedaya as her vengeful husband and M. Emmet Walsh as a private detective from hell.
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90I love the movie's originality, its sense of macabre humor, its resourcefulness, and the great Walsh, whose memorable narration kicks off the movie.
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90I love the unsettling details.
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89As good as it ever was, and improved slightly by hindsight, experience, and extra cash.
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88This is not an inspirational drama about finding yourself; it's a Hitchcockian comedy about adultery, murder and losing a corpse.
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88It's the boys' most immediately gratifying movie: The goods are delivered in a hearse.
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88(The Coens have) never again achieved the one-two punch of Blood Simple and "Raising Arizona" - the first darkly cynical, the second light-headedly comical.
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80The Coens' concern isn't emotional intensity but bravura camera moves and chic lighting of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld.
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80Boldly facetious and monstrously clever.
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Don't miss this opportunity to see a film that many believe started the renaissance of indie films as it was intended to be shown.
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75If you can handle its horror-comic grotesquerie, you'll find an enormous amount of cinematic imagination at work.
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75Clever as it is, Blood Simple is derivative and self-consciously stylized.
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75Grisly, stylish and often weirdly funny, Blood Simple is a reminder of how rarely an original artistic sensibility is announced to the world and how much better movies are when that sensibility is allowed to keep going its own way.
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70All these years later, the film is far more infuriating than it is exciting.
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63It is an exploitation picture disguised as a hipster comedy.
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60Remains mired in a smart-alecky film-school sensibility.
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50On viewing, the cuts seem negligible, but what is new and clearly improved is the sound, which now booms with each door slam and gunshot.
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50Revelatory and disappointing.
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BillC7A movie that doesn't follow a set pattern and you never know what is next. Bravo!