The Big Lebowski is about a cheerful loser; The Man Who Wasn’t There is about a miserable loser. The Big Lebowski stars a schlubby Jeff Bridges; The Man Who Wasn’t There stars a scowling Billy Bob ...
The Man Who Wasn’t There ranks among the Coens’ best thanks to the amazing performance by Billy Bob Thornton.
The story is rife with the Coens’ ripe ambivalence, a black seriocomic opera of fouled-up American dreams, and a meditation on ambivalence that is itself often as ambiguous as the emotional ...