Where Roberts' screenplay opted at times for easy sentiment the Coens' writing is not only wittier but also as chilly as a late Oklahoma autumn.

~ Anton Bitel -

Where Roberts' screenplay opted at times for easy sentiment the Coens' writing is not only wittier but also as chilly as a late Oklahoma autumn.

~ Anton Bitel -

A fine example of the uniquely offbeat, demonstrative, allusive cinema that only Joel and Ethan Coen can deliver.

~ Paul Griffiths -

A fine example of the uniquely offbeat, demonstrative, allusive cinema that only Joel and Ethan Coen can deliver.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Too many events in Raising Arizona are so ludicrous and out of place that they contradict the requirements of almost any genre.

~ Gator MacReady -

Too many events in Raising Arizona are so ludicrous and out of place that they contradict the requirements of almost any genre.

~ Gator MacReady -

It is like nibbling for nearly two hours in the kitchens of the best chefs. At the end we are exhausted and hungry.

~ Chris -

It is like nibbling for nearly two hours in the kitchens of the best chefs. At the end we are exhausted and hungry.

~ Chris -

Comic invention rides shotgun on a screenplay that runs wild.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Comic invention rides shotgun on a screenplay that runs wild.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Against the whisper of wind and buzz of flies, the Coens manage to find tension in the subtlest of movements and cut the dialogue through with humour as arid as the landscape.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Against the whisper of wind and buzz of flies, the Coens manage to find tension in the subtlest of movements and cut the dialogue through with humour as arid as the landscape.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Classic Coen Bros.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Classic Coen Bros.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Even the Coen Bros cannot stimulate interest in a guy who has switched the lights off inside his head.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Even the Coen Bros cannot stimulate interest in a guy who has switched the lights off inside his head.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The script excels.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The script excels.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The pace may seem deliberate but the Coens obviously want us to uncover the character's layers gently rather than him being delivered ready-made.

~ Richard Mowe -

The pace may seem deliberate but the Coens obviously want us to uncover the character's layers gently rather than him being delivered ready-made.

~ Richard Mowe -

What might have been a scintillating satire on the cynicism of legal shenanigans is a pleasant enough runaround.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

What might have been a scintillating satire on the cynicism of legal shenanigans is a pleasant enough runaround.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The Coens' obvious fun in concocting scenes of mid-century paranoia is infectious.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The Coens' obvious fun in concocting scenes of mid-century paranoia is infectious.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Either the Coens have no conception of reality, or the people they write about lost the place half way between there and here.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Either the Coens have no conception of reality, or the people they write about lost the place half way between there and here.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Brilliantly original.

~ The Exile -

Brilliantly original.

~ The Exile -

It is not as though we have not seen this sort of comic crime-gone-wrong chaos from the Coens before, but there is no-one who does it better.

~ Anton Bitel -

It is not as though we have not seen this sort of comic crime-gone-wrong chaos from the Coens before, but there is no-one who does it better.

~ Anton Bitel -

Nobody plays lazy like Jeff Bridges. You could say he was born to it. Or rather, he's such a good actor he makes it look as natural as an unmade bed.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Nobody plays lazy like Jeff Bridges. You could say he was born to it. Or rather, he's such a good actor he makes it look as natural as an unmade bed.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film has the maverick nature of originality, constantly surprising, never explaining.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film has the maverick nature of originality, constantly surprising, never explaining.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Scruggs still suffers from the problem that afflicts too many other anthologies - not all the tales come up to the same level in telling the essentially Coen-esque truth over and over.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Scruggs still suffers from the problem that afflicts too many other anthologies - not all the tales come up to the same level in telling the essentially Coen-esque truth over and over.

~ Owen Van Spall -