Inside Llewyn Davis

Name: Inside Llewyn Davis
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: December 6, 2013
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 93
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac

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CBS Films | Release Date: December 6, 2013 | R

Starring: Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac

Summary: Llewyn Davis is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter of 1961, he struggles to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles - some of them of his own making.

Director: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen

Genre(s): Drama, Music

Rating: R

Runtime: 104 min

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RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Dec 6, 2013

The most satisfyingly diabolical cinematic structure that the Coens have ever contrived, and that's just one reason that I suspect it may be their best movie yet. Read full review

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Marc Mohan

Dec 20, 2013

As flawless as any film this year and rock-solid confirmation that Joel and Ethan Coen are the greatest filmmakers working in America (and perhaps anywhere else) today. Read full review

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Jon Frosch

Nov 8, 2022

A razor-sharp deadpan comedy suffused with sorrow. Read full review

Film.com Jordan Hoffman

May 20, 2013

It’s a character piece, and one of the best and most understated movies I’ve ever seen about the grieving process. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Dec 5, 2013

Despite its atmosphere of failure and melancholy, Inside Llewyn Davis is ultimately a dark valentine to both its hero and his milieu. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Dec 19, 2013

Folk standards such "500 Miles," "The Death of Queen Anne" and "Dink's Song" infuse the movie, and as in the Coens' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" T Bone Burnett has done first-rate work supervising the musical landscape. The film, I think, falls just a tick or two below the Coens' best work, which for me lies inside "A Serious Man" and "Fargo." Read full review

McClatchy-Tribune News Service Roger Moore

Nov 25, 2013

The movie is so “interior,” it so zeroes in on Isaac and his baleful stare, that we’re relieved any time something overtly funny happens. Read full review

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Thegodfatherson

Dec 7, 2013

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS is a feat of filmmaking, taking the gentle strains of folk music and revealing it for the revolutionary act that it is. Not just because it has been the soundtrack of many social movements, but of personal ones, too. Oscar Isaac as Llewyn is revelatory, a bone-tired,INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS is a feat of filmmaking, taking the gentle strains of folk music and revealing it for the revolutionary act that it is. Not just because it has been the soundtrack of many social movements, but of personal ones, too. Oscar Isaac as Llewyn is revelatory, a bone-tired, supremely talented man whose passion for making music is struggling mightily against the whims of the industry and his demons one being the loss of his musical partner to suicide. When Isaac sings, we're transported first to the dusky bars of 1960s West Village and, more important, to the jungle of discouragement and confusion he's living in. It's a powerful performance. Supporting him is a great ensemble, some new to the Coen Brothers family (Timberlake, thankfully subdued and nearly holding his own against the others) and some beloved veterans (Goodman). It's not just Isaac and the cast, though, that makes Inside Llewyn Davis remarkable. The music, with T-Bone Burnett in charge of the soundtrack, takes its rightful place front and center. And the Coens tell the story in a clever, elliptical way that drives home the futility and magic of a time. But it's not all sadness and tears. The Coens' singular humor runs a streak through the entire enterprise. Go see it.… Expand

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AkshayPrabhakar

Oct 31, 2018

Inside llewyn davis turns out to be the best of the visionary filmmakers Coen brothers so far. It is intentionally depressing and captivating to an extent that it leaves you with an uncomfortable numbness. gem of a movie and not to forget the mesmerizing cinematography

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Calcal18

Oct 26, 2020

Nice movie, Cohen brothers are one of my favourites. Humour, touching and just all around good/fun movie

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Tyranian

Sep 1, 2019

Coen brothers deliver another very entertaining film with good acting and good writing.

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DirkV

Dec 8, 2013

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. i usually LOVE Coen Bros. films. Oh well. The music was great to listen to in this one, and it was filmed beautifully, but there was no story. So I was completely disengaged. When the film ended my viewing companion and i looked at each other and shrugged, and said, that's 2 hours we'll never get back.… Expand

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Trev29

Dec 26, 2013

I understand that the movie's intention is to be dreary, bleak, and so on, but it comes off as boring, overlong, and with no satisfying conclusion. The music was a mixed bag with more bad than good. Some characters felt worthless.

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zedzded

Sep 8, 2019

this movie has nothing going for it. as a portrait of a mediocre aimless artist it fulfills its brief but the downside is that it's aimless and mediocre to watch and not aimless in a fun big lebowski way. i love the coen brother's early work but this movie and a few other recent ones givethis movie has nothing going for it. as a portrait of a mediocre aimless artist it fulfills its brief but the downside is that it's aimless and mediocre to watch and not aimless in a fun big lebowski way. i love the coen brother's early work but this movie and a few other recent ones give me the impression they are sliding into mediocrity with little to say. tragic.… Expand

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