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Rating: 5/10 (5 June 2016)

Hail, Caesar!
Disgracefully, in the 1950s only white actors were cast for communist roles in Hollywood movies.
Fortunately, this comedy offers some enlightenment on the cultural insensitivity of "Redface".
Employed by Capitol Pictures to protect their stars from public scandal, Mannix (Josh Brolin) faces an array of back-lot indignities, including: a pregnant starlet (Scarlett Johansson), an inept heartthrob (Alden Ehrenreich), twin sister gossip columnists (Tilda Swinton) and a leading man (George Clooney) who has been shanghaied by communists within the studio (Channing Tatum, Fisher Stevens).
The Coen Brothers' ambitious but aimless attempt at lampooning the low-end genre pictures of post-war Hollywood and the escalating red menace therein, Hail Caesar does have some noteworthy odes to old Hollywood. Unfortunately, they never coalesce with the larger story, which seriously lacks the siblings' eccentric brand of humor.
Besides, the best way to catch commie actors is to stakeout the pot of borscht at craft services.
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