Hail, Caesar!
Universal Pictures | Release Date: February 5, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 50 Critic Reviews
Positive:
38
Mixed:
11
Negative:
1
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60
TimeStephanie ZacharekFeb 3, 2016
Hail, Caesar! doesn’t completely hang together. But Johansson in a mermaid’s tail? Really, why else make movies—or go to them? Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzFeb 3, 2016
While individually some of the scenes are terrific, they don't add up to much, making Hail, Caesar! one of the Coens' lesser comedies, better than "Intolerable Cruelty," say, but nowhere near the genius of "The Big Lewbowski." Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 3, 2016
Hail, Caesar! keeps stumbling over its own best ideas as we stop to appreciate them – ditching momentum, preferring gaps for applause. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinFeb 5, 2016
Their amalgamations can be feats of genius, like their stoner-gumshoe farrago "The Big Lebowski." Or they can pretty much lie there, like much of their new, star-packed comedy, Hail, Caesar!, which is nothing but movie fodder. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanFeb 4, 2016
The Coen brothers’ new movie, set in Hollywood in 1951, brings easy laughs but dissipates from memory moments later, like the cheesy films to which it pays homage – or, perhaps, mocks. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezFeb 4, 2016
The Coens feel out of step this time; they’ve lost their rhythm the way they did in The Hudsucker Proxy, where the style consumed the entire picture, turning what should have been humorous and snappy into a grating chore. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallFeb 4, 2016
Hail, Caesar! is maddeningly hit-and-miss. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyFeb 3, 2016
There is amusement to be had, engaging actors to admire and beautiful craftsmanship to behold, but the entertainment quotient is below their usual standard when it comes to the films they target for a mass audience, of which this is one. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 3, 2016
When the Coen Brothers miss, they miss with gusto. Images of Babe Ruth, swinging and collapsing in a heap from the effort come to mind. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonFeb 2, 2016
The brothers' latest also has a certain buoyancy...The fizziness, though, proves fleeting, and Hail, Caesar! too often goes flat. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonFeb 4, 2016
A dispiritingly vitriolic, only sporadically funny satire of ’50s Hollywood, Hail, Caesar! verifies a suspicion long held here, that the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, really hate the movies. Read full review
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