[midway]

I read a fair number of Reed’s reviews (because I love movies) but unlike some critics I can’t rely on his opinion lining up with mine.

In the course of his review of the Coen bros. A Serious Man
he refers to The Big Lebowski as ‘dreadful’ (IMO it’s extremely funny and a fave of mine, one of just a few DVDs I own) and about the Coens’ Best Picture winner No Country For Old Men (a very very fine film I have watched 3 times) Reed kvetches about ‘a confusing and maddeningly unsatisfactory ending’.

Rotten Tomatoes rating on Goats is a modest 59% so I may rent it eventually but the moral is, I guess, that Reed has an underdeveloped funny bone (yes No Country was a black comedy as well as a thriller and morality tale).

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"...[regarding] the Coens’ Best Picture winner No Country For Old Men (a very very fine film I have watched 3 times) Reed kvetches about ‘a confusing and maddeningly unsatisfactory ending’."

That tears it. NCFOM was a freakin' masterpiece, one of those gets-inside-your-head films that never quite leaves you. Brilliant and engrossing and supremely well done, and marvelously acted, with every single player delivering total perfection. If Reed felt the ending was maddeningly unsatisfactory then he missed the entire freaking point of the movie. Yes it's maddeningly unsatisfactory!! That's the point!

What a dunderhead. What a nimrod. Jeesh.

You, meanwhile, have good taste.