The Coen brothers keep making the same film twice—and it’s brilliant

Asher Gelzer-Govatos writing in The A.V. Club makes a pretty clever association, The Coen brothers keep making the same film twice—and it’s brilliant "It makes sense to view the six films they have made in this span not as a series of movies connected only by the stylistic quirks of their directors, but as a series of diptychs, each dealing with a discrete subject viewed from multiple vantage points. Each comedy acts as a complement to the drama that has preceded it, shedding new light on the central preoccupations of its predecessor. No Country shares an important DNA strand with Burn After Reading; A Serious Man has more than a glancing relationship to True Grit; and Inside Llewyn Davis finds its counterpart in the newest Coen film, Hail, Caesar!"