Sometimes a filmmaker you love makes a movie so bad it forces you to question your whole reality. I’m not talking about your run-of-the-mill misfire. Movies are complicated and fragile organisms, and even the best director can’t control for all the variables that can turn a potential masterpiece into a noble failure. (When I first started writing about movies, I couldn’t understand why there were so many bad ones. Now, I think it’s a miracle that any of them are good.) But there are failures and then there are catastrophes, movies so dire it doesn’t seem as if they could possibly have been made by the same person.

Technically, Ethan Coen is only half of the Coen brothers, and the easiest read on the movies he and his brother Joel have made since going their separate ways after 2018’s Th

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