Have the Coen Bros ever made a movie that amounts to anything

Rating: 5/10 (27 June 2019)

John Malkovich gets this movie off to an intense start. Frances McDormand shows up to let us know its a dark comedy. And Brad Pitt surprises in a very funny role. He also bleeds, which is usually a sign it's a good movie.
There are problems, however. Nobody cares about divorce. It's not funny and it's not dramatic. This isn't 1967. Bigger problem is George Clooney's uneven, lazy and hammy performance that helps take this movie from tragedy to cartoon to farce. The final lines by J.K. Simmons I have to take as the Coen Bros' middle finger to movie-goers. I'm predicting that 20 years from now we'll be looking back at their ouevre and wondering what all the fuss was about.