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Frances McDormand

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Blood SimpleBlood Simple (1984) Recommended
Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
A humdinger debut from the Coen Brothers, who teasingly draw out the sinister activities of shady activities of shady rednecks before nailing things…
ChattahoocheeChattahoochee (1990)
Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand
Gary Oldman plays a Korean war veteran admitted to an asylum where he discovers gross malpractise and corruption.
DarkmanDarkman (1990)
Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels
A superhero emerges from a scientist charred beyond recognition, but able to assume the identity of anyone he chooses. Fun all the way, with the…
Hidden AgendaHidden Agenda (1990)
Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Brian Cox, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif
Perhaps dir. Loach’s most genre–based film, this political thriller about sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s involves…
FargoFargo (1996) Recommended
Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy
The gifted Coen Brothers cross two of their previous treasures – RAISING ARIZONA and BLOOD SIMPLE for this lovingly mocking tale of insurance…
Paradise RoadParadise Road (1997)
Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Cate Blanchett
A group of European woman, incl. Glenn Close and Frances McDormand, are captured in Singapore during WWII by the Japanese. They alleviate the…
MadelineMadeline (1998) Recommended
Dir. Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Feat. Hatty Jones, Frances McDormand
Little Hatty Jones is quite marvellous as a cutey–rebel redhead boarding at a school of etiquette presided by groovy nun Frances McDormand in…
Talk of AngelsTalk of Angels (1999)
Dir. Nick Hamm
Feat. Polly Walker, Vincent Perez, Frances McDormand
Undeniably polished costume epic, sees Irish governess Polly Walker transplanted to the aristocratic Spanish household of Franco Nero during the…
Wonder BoysWonder Boys (2000)
Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jnr., Tobey Maguire
A rumpled Michael Douglas plays an academic professor and successful author who's terminally unfinished second novel is symptomatic of midlife…
Almost FamousAlmost Famous (2000) Aro Favourite
Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Billy Crudup, Jason Lee, Kate Hudson
The best music drama yet committed to film (SPINAL TAP was a comedy), this is a vibrant and bracingly assured portrait of rock music fanaticism in…
Man Who Wasn't There, TheMan Who Wasn't There, The (2001) Recommended
Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini
The Coen Brothers chalk up another film in love with film, an attractive but slender paean to 1950s pulp melodramas, with its nostalgia–soaked…
City By the SeaCity By the Sea (2002)
Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
Feat. Robert De Niro, Frances McDormand
Robert De Niro faces a personal and professional dilemma as a decent cop/bad father who discovers that the prime suspect in the murder of his partner…
Laurel CanyonLaurel Canyon (2002)
Dir. Lisa Cholodenko
Feat. Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale
Dropping in on the LA music scene, the writer–director of HIGH ART returns to her pet theme of conservatism yielding to a bohemianism, but…
Something's Gotta GiveSomething's Gotta Give (2003)
Dir. Nancy Meyers
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves
Smoothly fashioned comic drama in which aging music–industry womaniser Nicholson suffers a heart attack and falls for grey–haired…
Aeon FluxAeon Flux (2005)
Dir. Karyn Kusama
Feat. Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller
Sci–fi action fantasy based on the mid–1990s animation by Peter Chung, in which a spandex–clad superheroine (Theron) flits around…
North CountryNorth Country (2005)
Dir. Niki Caro
Feat. Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek
Fact–based drama about a group of women miners in 1970s Minnesota who endured a hostile work environment, bullying and sexual abuse after…
Friends with MoneyFriends with Money (2006)
Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener
Diverting relationship–drama skips through dir. Holofcener's (LOVELY AND AMAZING) perennial wry life lessons, presenting the tribulations of…
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (2008)
Dir. Bharat Nalluri
Feat. Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Shirley Henderson
Zippy "roaring 30's" comedy about an unemployed governess (McDormand) who finds a new zest for life and love after accepting a job with a frivolous,…
Burn After Reading Burn After Reading (2008) Recommended
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Feat. George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt
Appealing 'dunderhead' comedy from the Coen Brothers that plots an elaborate caper for its A–list ensemble cast, who relish the chance to…
Transformers - Dark of the MoonTransformers - Dark of the Moon (Transformers 3) (2011)
Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro
The brashest of blockbuster franchises rolls on seemingly eternally, but this one's at least an improvement of the execrable REVENGE OF THE FALLEN.…
This Must Be the PlaceThis Must Be the Place (2011)
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Feat. Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch
Sean Penn is all affectation as a retired, depressed glam rocker who sets off on an American road trip in search of a Nazi war criminal in this…
Moonrise KingdomMoonrise Kingdom (2012) Recommended
Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis
Wes Anderson's latest exquisite comedy, about two 12–year–olds in 1960s New England who consummate their adolescent romance by running…
Promised LandPromised Land (2012)
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski
Matt Damon plays a natural–gas representative who has the best interests of a small–town community at heart despite his company's…
Olive Kitteridge (TV Mini-Series)Olive Kitteridge (TV Mini-Series) (2014) Aro Favourite
Dir. Lisa Cholodenko
Feat. Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Ann Dowd
Frances McDormand is superb as the forbidding Olive Kitteridge in this exemplary HBO adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize–winning…
Good Dinosaur, TheGood Dinosaur, The (2015) Recommended
Dir. Peter Sohn
Feat. Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Anna Paquin
Charming pre–historic tale, set in an alternate world where the dinosaur–killing asteroid misses Earth. about the unlikely friendship…
Hail Caesar!Hail Caesar! (2016) Recommended
Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Feat. Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich
Light yet dazzlingly bright comic outing from the Coen Bros follows real life Hollywood 'fixer' Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) as he frantically tries to…
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Recommended
Dir. Martin McDonagh
Feat. Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
Frances McDormand gives an Oscar–winning turn as a grieving mother who personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's…
NomadlandNomadland (2020) Aro Favourite
Dir. Chloé Zhao
Feat. Frances McDormand, David Strathairn
Frances McDormand offers arguably her greatest performance yet (ahead of a cast of nomadic non–actors) as a woman who leaves her…
French Dispatch, TheFrench Dispatch, The (2021) Recommended
Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton
A wildly inventive anthology film from meticulous auteur Wes Anderson (GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL) set in in a fictional 20th century French town, where a…

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