Hail, Caesar!'s reviews
Media reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
'Hail, Caesar!' is pure, popcorn fun ? a visual treat, a comedic tour de force and a sublime and sly slice of satire.
Los Angeles Times
The great thing about 'Hail, Caesar!' is that it is fun whether you get all its references or not.
Rolling Stone
Hail, Caesar! is basically a day in the life of this studio cop, whose job is his religion. And Brolin, in a heart-and-soul performance, takes this crazy quilt of a movie about a man surrounded by nut jobs and plays it for real. He's just tremendous.
The Washington Post
Slick, silly and often extravagantly pretty, it?s a pastiche that threads a tricky needle, conveying the dual nature of cinema as an enchanting art form and a ruthless, rationalized industrial practice.
The Wrap
The Coens revel in both the glamour and the squalor of post-war Hollywood with a film that more than makes up in wit and flash what it might lack in substance.
Entertainment Weekly
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.
The Guardian
'Hail, Caesar!' is a lot of fun, and beautifully crafted, too. One to savour.
Variety
This gorgeously crafted romp through the backlots and Malibu enclaves of Hollywood?s Golden Age tosses off plenty of eccentric comedy and musical razzle-dazzle before taking on richer, more ruminative dimensions, ultimately landing on the funny-sad question of whether life is but a dream factory.
USA Today
Some bits fall flat, yet when the Coens hit, there?s nothing better, especially with their usual ridiculously sublime banter.
The Hollywood Reporter
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.