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1. The Coen Brothers have had a very strong run of movies from No Country For Old Men to The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, with perhaps Hail Caesar! being the one movie from the set that is most dismissed. I want to change that.
2. Hail, Caesar is such a surface delight (the musical numbers, the homages to classical Hollywood genres, the florid voiceover) that it gets dismissed as a mere triffle, when in fact it grows out of deep-seated Coen concerns about the precarious position of art in mass culture
3. Here's my longer take (arguing with my old TNR colleague @williamfleitch) that far from a trifle, Hail, Caesar! is a heartfelt ode to the redemptive power of art: lareviewofbooks.org/article/render…
4. Very grateful for @LAReviewofBooks for the space to make the argument and @annashechtman for the super-editing.
