Hail, Caesar!
Reception

Hail, Caesar! (2016)

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6.3
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 171,228 votes
6.5/10 15,858 votes Synced 2026-07-31
6.3/10 150,760 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 6.0/10 532 votes Synced 2026-07-19
Critics 7.2/10 Synced 2026-07-19
Audience 4.4/10 Synced 2026-07-18
Critics 8.6/10 Synced 2026-07-18
5.9/10 4,078 votes Synced 2026-09-15

External reviews

Richard Brody · The New Yorker 100.00/100.00

A comedy, and a scintillating, uproarious one, filled with fast and light touches of exquisite incongruity in scenes that have the expansiveness of relaxed precision, performed and timed with the spontaneous authority of jazz.

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Peter Travers · Rolling Stone 88.00/100.00

Hail, Caesar! is basically a day in the life of this studio cop, whose job is his religion. And Brolin, in a heart-and-soul performance, takes this crazy quilt of a movie about a man surrounded by nut jobs and plays it for real. He's just tremendous.

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Kenneth Turan · Los Angeles Times 90.00/100.00

The great thing about Hail, Caesar! is that it is fun whether you get all its references or not.

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Andrew O'Hehir · Salon 100.00/100.00

Underneath the laff-riot and the Hollywood satire, Hail, Caesar! is a curiously delicate film built on profound affection for American movies and the illusions they build, and loaded with in-jokes the mainstream audience will grasp incompletely or not at all.

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Ann Hornaday · Washington Post 88.00/100.00

Slick, silly and often extravagantly pretty, it’s a pastiche that threads a tricky needle, conveying the dual nature of cinema as an enchanting art form and a ruthless, rationalized industrial practice.

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Ty Burr · Boston Globe 88.00/100.00

There are the serious Coen brothers movies, like “No Country for Old Men” and, um, “A Serious Man,” and there are the not-so-serious ones. Hail, Caesar! is the opposite of their serious ones, and it is delightful.

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Glenn Kenny · RogerEbert.com 100.00/100.00

An exhilarating switchup: A comic fable that’s both deftly clever and irrepressibly goofy.

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Richard Roeper · Chicago Sun-Times 100.00/100.00

Hail, Caesar! is pure, popcorn fun — a visual treat, a comedic tour de force and a sublime and sly slice of satire.

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Michael Snydel · The Film Stage 91.00/100.00

Just as the brothers themselves love to present dialectics about the duality of triviality and seriousness, so, too, does Hail, Caesar! constantly skate back and forth between feeling slight and monumental.

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David Ehrlich · Slate 100.00/100.00

If the Coen brothers’ dramas are cautionary tales, their comedies are veritable how-to guides for people who can’t help but enjoy a mirthless chuckle at the humility of human existence. Yeah, the joke is on us, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t funny.

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