Miller's Crossing may not seem like a typical Coen bros. flick because it isn't. one gets the sense that these two were still testing the waters of the early days, having yet to bottle "the formula" that would contain the hallmarks of their trade.
To call it a gangster movie seems to cheapen it but if you have to go there, i don't think there will ever be another quite like it.
Dark, brooding, calculating and conniving, the atmosphere matches The Dane (Gabriel Byrne). John Turturro's performance won't soon be forgotten either (perhaps in fact unmatched lest you mention Barton Fink which incidentally was written during a stint of writer's block that struck the Coens while writing the screenplay for Miller's Crossing). His grovelling line "look into your heart" is as powerful as the hat we see blowing through the woods (though admittedly much less enigmatic, or maybe it's just simply a hat blowing through the woods? Must everything be injected with meaning? Yes, well, to an extent.)
In the least, this film is a PHD thesis on the concept of Double Cross.
Watch it and you'll never wish you hadn't.
Released in 1990
Directed by Joel Coen
The movie flopped upon release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoktrZ8Qyqg
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