Joel & Ethan Coen

Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957), born and raised in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, are two brothers who made many films together – known as the Coen brothers – and on their own. Among the American filmmaking duo’s most famous early projects are Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Fargo (1996), and The Big Lebowski (1998), which has achieved cult status. In the 2000s, their works include the acclaimed O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2001), the award-winning No Country for Old Men (1007), the Oscar Isaac-starring Inside Llewyn Davis – which won the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Prix – and their last project together, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).

Joel Coen was the first of the Coen brothers to go solo. After announcing that he would take a break from movies in the late 2010s, he then wrote and directed the A24-distributed The Tragedy of Macbeth (2019), which earned global acclaim.

To date, Ethan Coen has made three solo projects: Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind (2022) with A24, and Drive-Away Dolls (2024) and Honey Don’t! (2025) with Focus Features.

The Coen brothers are both set to release more movies in the future. Ethan Coen is currently working on the second part of the trilogy that started with Drive-Away Dolls, while Joel Coen is about to start shooting Jack of Spades, starring Josh O’Connor, in Scotland. There are reports of the brothers reuniting to make a movie together soon too, but nothing concrete has been announced yet.

This page contains all our reviews of movies from Joel and Ethan Coen, both together and on their own.