The Hudsucker Proxy 1994

Critics score:
58 / 100

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Caryn James, New York Times: Movies are, after all, about fakery; so is the story of Norville's rise and fall and redemption. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A jeering, dreamlike comedy with nothing much on its mind except how neat the Coen brothers are and how stupid or contemptible everybody else is, including everyone in the audience. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A wickedly funny and incisive lampoon of big business. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Not even the slightest attempt is made to suggest that the film takes its own story seriously. Everything is style. The performances seem deliberately angled as satire. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: A minor work, but confirmation of the Coens' position among America's most ambitious, able and exciting film-makers. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Nearly everything in the Coen brothers' latest and biggest film seems like a wizardly but artificial synthesis, leaving a hole in the middle where some emotion and humanity should be. Read more

Joe Brown, Washington Post: Clever but cold, a heartless mechanical gizmo. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: If something brilliant is happening in The Hudsucker Proxy -- and you're meant to believe that it is -- it's apparent only to Ethan and Joel Coen. Read more