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Blood Simple. (1984) Rank 3 Reviews
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Baltimore City Paper (Ian Grey)
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San Francisco Chronicle (Ruthe Stein)
San Francisco Examiner (Wesley Morris)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Blood Simple, the filmmaking debut of brothers Joel and Ethan Coen ( O Brother, Where Art Thou? ), has not aged a bit in the 16 years since it was first released. Taut, suspenseful, well-written, and superbly directed with a sly sense of black humor, ...read the complete Blood Simple. movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
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iAfrica.com (Andrew Burden)
The Coen Brothers can easily be seen as one of America’s greatest filmmaking duos ...read the complete Blood Simple. movie review at iAfrica.com (Andrew Burden)
DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
...a sly, tongue-in-cheek, film-noir thriller...a dark murder mystery laced with black humor. ...read the complete Blood Simple. movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
Netflix (James Rocchi)
The neo-noir debut from the Coen brothers is snappy, cynical and intricate. ...read the complete Blood Simple. movie review at Netflix (James Rocchi)
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BBC Films (Almar Haflidason)
Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
The Coen brothers’ first film, Blood Simple has evidently garnered enough of a following to justify a re-release a mere fifteen years later. It’s certainly not a bad film, but it’s hardly the classic reinvention of film noir that it wants to be. This ...read the complete Blood Simple. movie review at Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
Kevin Patterson
The premise of "Blood Simple" is really just a slight variation on the standard lovetriangle/revenge scheme: sleazy bar owner Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) hires a shifty private detective (M. Emmet Walsh) to kill his wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and her ...read the complete Blood Simple. movie review at Kevin Patterson
Reel Movie Critic (George O. Singleton)
Loren, while trying to cover a crime that he commits, finds himself literally in two places at the same time. Yes, you read it right and there is no trick photography or ...read the complete Blood Simple. movie review at Reel Movie Critic (George O. Singleton)
Steve Rhodes
In order, one supposes, to celebrate roughly their first 15 years, they are releasing a director's cut of BLOOD SIMPLE to the theaters. They claim to have taken out some of the boring parts and added in a bit as well. But the running time is about the ...read the complete Blood Simple. movie review at Steve Rhodes
Boston Herald (James Verniere)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Planet Sick-Boy (Jon Popick)
A lot can happen in fifteen years. When I first saw Blood Simple, it blew my mind. It was one of those early independent films that was so daring and original that it made me want to do cartwheels down the theatre aisles. After seeing the newly ...read the complete Blood Simple. movie review at Planet Sick-Boy (Jon Popick)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Taut, suspenseful, well-written, and superbly directed with a sly sense of black humor ...read the complete Blood Simple. movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
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That Cow (Andrew Bradford)
It's hard for me not to think of a Coen Brothers' film as anything other than a comedy, but this first film of theirs must have struck theatregoers as something else, most likely a twisted little tale of infidelity and murder. We get glimmers ...read the complete Blood Simple. movie review at That Cow (Andrew Bradford)
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Philadelphia City Paper (Sam Adams)
Leave it to the ever-contrary Coen Brothers to produce the first "director’s cut" that’s actually shorter than the original. Though the 1984 original was released just as Joel and Ethan wanted it, they decided looking back the movie needed a little ...read the complete Blood Simple. movie review at Philadelphia City Paper (Sam Adams)
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