Criterion’s The Man Who Wasn’t There arrives in 4K with a new restoration, strong grayscale, and a restrained noir that still holds up. Some films age quietly. Others sit in the dark, waiting for the ...
The story is rife with the Coens’ ripe ambivalence, a black seriocomic opera of fouled-up American dreams, and a meditation on ambivalence that is itself often as ambiguous as the emotional ...
The Big Lebowski is about a cheerful loser; The Man Who Wasn’t There is about a miserable loser. The Big Lebowski stars a schlubby Jeff Bridges; The Man Who Wasn’t There stars a scowling Billy Bob ...