Miller's Crossing

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

1990 / 115min / DCP

Irish and Italian gangs trade bullets in this twist-filled, densely plotted Prohibition-era noir, featuring an icy Gabriel Byrne leading a cast filled with Coen Brothers’ favorites (John Turturro, Jon Polito, Steve Buscemi). The last film Barry Sonnenfeld shot for the Coens before going on to his own directing career, Miller’s Crossing combines the cool of Jean-Pierre Melville, the economy of Dashiell Hammett, and the black humor that is very much the Coens’ own signature. “A superb, languid fantasia on the theme of the gangster film.”—David Thomson