We love a good ranking and debate about a filmmaker's oeuvre. So, when we found World of Reel’s recent 100-critic poll that examines the Coen brothers' filmography, we were delighted.Fargo topped their list, with No Country for Old Men coming close behind. Great choices.However, further down, I was stunned to see O Brother, Where Art Thou? dead last. After Burn After Reading? Friends. What's up with that?There's no "correct" way to arrange what is an incredible body of work, but we decided to approach it a little more objectively. Also, I don't want to start any fights with a subjective list. Instead, looking at critical rankings from Rotten Tomatoes, Letterboxd, Metacritic, and other major outlets, we can compile an aggregated top 5 based on consistent performance across all of them.True Grit leads Rotten Tomatoes' rankings with a 95% Tomatometer. Blood Simple, their first feature film, is second, followed by Fargo at third, then No Country and Miller's Crossing. In IMDb rankings of Coen brothers films based on audience scores, No Country for Old Men stands as the top with a score of 8.2 (1.1 million votes). Following closely are The Big Lebowski, with an 8.1 score (899K votes), and Fargo, also with an 8.1 (764K votes). Then we have O Brother, Where Art Thou?, with a 7.7 rating (344K votes), and Miller's Crossing, with a 7.7 rating (147K votes).On Metacritic, the rankings are a bit shuffled: Inside Llewyn Davis (93 Metascore), No Country for Old Men (92), Fargo (88), Blood...
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