Iwould never make a ridiculous statement like Ron Howard and the Coen Bros. are remotely in the same league as filmmakers, but I also think Howard isn’t necessarily accorded the respect he deserves from his nearly 50 years as a director. Sure, he introduced the world to JD Vance with Hillbilly Elegy , which is definitely problematic. Still, a part of me will always respect Howard for his work on Willow , Apollo 13 , The Missing , and Backdraft . However, A Beautiful Mind is worse than you remember it, I promise.

Joel and Ethan Coen, meanwhile, have made somewhere around a dozen of the greatest films ever made, including Raising Arizona , The Big Lebowski , and No Country For Old Men , but haven’t made a film together since 2018’s misunderstood The Ballad of Buster Scrug

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