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Miller's Crossing (1990) Rank 4 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Miller's Crossing (1990) a score of 3.3388 out of 4

based on (17) reviews

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Reel.com

There's a mystery at the heart of Miller's Crossing - and it's even bigger than the perplexing question of who and why somebody took Rug Daniels' toupee after they bumped him and left his corpse slumped in an alley. ...read the complete Miller's Crossing movie review at Reel.com

Ted Prigge

"Miller's Crossing" is named after the place in the forest where the gangsters in this movie go to shoot some of their more pestful problems, and is the location for the big twist in the movie, where the protagonist makes a fatal decision because of a ...read the complete Miller's Crossing movie review at Ted Prigge

John Beachem

It took me awhile to realize what was troubling me throughout this beautiful movie. I think the problem is, as we listen to this gorgeous, poetic banter between the characters, it dawns on us that no one speaks like this. As a result of this, we never ...read the complete Miller's Crossing movie review at John Beachem

At-A-Glance Film Reviews

Gangsters are the subject of this quirky Coen brothers film starring Gabriel Byrne, John Turturro, Jon Polito, and Albert Finney. As is custom with the Coens' surreal dramatic thrillers, there's a thin humorous undercurrent beneath the madness (an ...read the complete Miller's Crossing movie review at At-A-Glance Film Reviews

Film Freak Central (Bill Chambers)

If Miller's Crossing isn't my favourite movie, I don't know what is. ...read the complete Miller's Crossing movie review at Film Freak Central (Bill Chambers)

EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)

Loosley based on Hammett's novel and Chicago's Capone-O'Bannion gang war, the film is more impressive visually than thematically, though new angle of placing Irish, Italian, and Jewish gangsters in the same tale is intriguing. ...read the complete Miller's Crossing movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)

Movie Reviews UK

While Miller's Crossing is a standard gangster movie, it's filtering through the Coen brothers' synapses imbues it with their unique style. Set in somewhere around the 1920s, the nameless town featured is firmly under the criminal thumb of Leo (Albert ...read the complete Miller's Crossing movie review at Movie Reviews UK

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