Hail, Caesar!

Name: Hail, Caesar!
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Comedy, Musical
Released: February 5, 2016
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Alden Ehrenreich, Channing Tatum, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, Jonah Hill

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: February 5, 2016 | PG-13

Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Channing Tatum, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, Jonah Hill, Josh Brolin, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton

Summary: Set during the latter years of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Hail, Caesar! follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.

Director: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Comedy, Musical

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 106 min

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Richard Brody

Feb 5, 2016

A comedy, and a scintillating, uproarious one, filled with fast and light touches of exquisite incongruity in scenes that have the expansiveness of relaxed precision, performed and timed with the spontaneous authority of jazz. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Feb 4, 2016

The great thing about Hail, Caesar! is that it is fun whether you get all its references or not. Read full review

Leah Greenblatt

Feb 3, 2016

It's Coen lite, basically, but still filled with their best signatures: cracked humor, indelible characters, and cinematography so rich and saturated you want to dunk a cookie in it. Read full review

Steven Rea

Feb 4, 2016

A goofy conflation of Coenian elements: the numbskull huggermugger of "The Big Lebowski", the La La Land surrealness of "Barton Fink", the Old Testament overlay of "A Serious Man." Read full review

Joe Dziemianowicz

Feb 3, 2016

Star-studded and stylish, this addition to the brothers’ acclaimed canon is a looker with laughs and, alas, dull stretches. It’s fun and entertaining — no more, no less, no exclamation point. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Feb 3, 2016

The tone of "Hail, Caesar!" is even and assured, yet the comic inspiration is sporadic. Read full review

Kate Taylor

Feb 6, 2016

In short, there are an awful lot of subplots and comic characters but none of the actors in this star-studded cast is allowed to build his laughs and the Coens just abandon several of these vivid personalities along the way. Read full review

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JazzyJay

Feb 6, 2016

This is a great movie by any measure. It's an entertainment on the surface, with startling stunts, huge sets, technical dance numbers, entertaining "bits", great music both as background and foreground, beautiful places and cinematography and characters that tie all these things together.This is a great movie by any measure. It's an entertainment on the surface, with startling stunts, huge sets, technical dance numbers, entertaining "bits", great music both as background and foreground, beautiful places and cinematography and characters that tie all these things together. Attempting to disassemble any part of this juggling act in the act of judging the Movie is to miss the whole point of the movie. It is designed to work as a "meta" meta. Whether or not you agree with the espoused mature outlook and body politic hidden within the clever script and whether or not you choose to pull outward and see how actually genius the entire presentation is as a whole, you can't help but be entertained by this product of Hollywood about Hollywood using the "language" of Hollywood. Like I said, pure genius and I left with a smile on my face.… Expand

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GinaK

Feb 14, 2016

I went to this film with my sister who has an encyclopedic knowledge of Hollywood lore. She loved this film and I give it an 8 in her honor. She said to me later, “I guess you don’t know what Dashiell Hammett looked like” (all the actors playing the kidnappers were chosen to look like famousI went to this film with my sister who has an encyclopedic knowledge of Hollywood lore. She loved this film and I give it an 8 in her honor. She said to me later, “I guess you don’t know what Dashiell Hammett looked like” (all the actors playing the kidnappers were chosen to look like famous “studio”-connected people of the era). She also reminded me that Loretta Young adopted her own child (fathered by Clark Gable), just like an actress in the film almost does, and told me about the rumors that Eddie Mannix (who really existed) supposedly had George Reeves (Superman) murdered because of his affair with Mannix’s promiscuous wife, most of whose affairs he tolerated. So I can see why many critics had high praise for this film. I thought the film was fun, but I yawned a lot at times, luckily not as loudly as a man behind us. But if you know all the old stories, you’ll love this film.… Expand

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badgerryan19

May 19, 2017

Stupid funny comedy. Bust out laughing at some points. Great acting, intriguing story. Another great film from the Coen brothers. Not for everyone but still a good one.

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jg63

Feb 14, 2016

Great production numbers and cinematography, but the plot is very thin. Clooney is wasted, so is Johansson. Then again, so was Tatum. All are great talents who could have been used much more effectively with a deeper plot. Brolin was great. Great pieces looking for a great movie to be in.

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marklaing1

Feb 15, 2016

With young kids, 6 and 4, my wife and I struggle to go out to see big screen films these days so it's doubly tiresome when we hit a dud. The old couple sitting to the right of us must have been teenagers during the movie's time period and the wife fell asleep. Twice, snoring loudly. IWith young kids, 6 and 4, my wife and I struggle to go out to see big screen films these days so it's doubly tiresome when we hit a dud. The old couple sitting to the right of us must have been teenagers during the movie's time period and the wife fell asleep. Twice, snoring loudly. I thought Clooney was in the wrong part. The younger player were great. The movie was a mess, compare it to the dark humor of The Player and you'll see why. Ghastly with some great moments. But a series of vignettes, set pieces to what purpose. Sleep.… Expand

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NickTheCritick

Nov 2, 2021

This might be by far the worst coen brothers movie. Nothing seems to be working here.

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KITTY6

May 18, 2016

Hale Ceaser !! Sorry mr Clooney and co i only paid £4 and a free cup of coffee to see this film i wish i had drank my cup of coffee and not watched the film

1 of 5 users found this helpful14

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