Joel Coen

Director

Joel Coen has a .333 batting average: 7 of 21 films rated 80/100 or higher.

Batting average
.333
Hits
7 of 21 feature films rated 80/100 or higher
Percentile
top 14% of 941 directors, confidence-adjusted (how it works)
Career
1985–2021

Films, ranked by rating

  1. Fargo (1996) — 96/100 · hit
  2. No Country for Old Men (2007) — 90/100 · hit
  3. Barton Fink (1991) — 82/100 · hit
  4. The Big Lebowski (1998) — 81/100 · hit
  5. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) — 81/100 · hit
  6. Blood Simple (1985) — 80/100 · hit
  7. True Grit (2010) — 80/100 · hit
  8. To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — 79/100
  9. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) — 78/100
  10. Miller's Crossing (1990) — 77/100
  11. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) — 77/100
  12. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) — 76/100
  13. A Serious Man (2009) — 76/100
  14. Raising Arizona (1987) — 75/100
  15. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) — 74/100
  16. Paris Je T'aime (2006) — 72/100
  17. Burn After Reading (2008) — 69/100
  18. Hail, Caesar! (2016) — 68/100
  19. Intolerable Cruelty (2003) — 66/100
  20. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) — 66/100
  21. The Ladykillers (2004) — 59/100

Films that qualify under the rating methodology, not a complete filmography.

Best and worst

Highest rated

  1. Fargo (1996) — 96/100 · hit
  2. No Country for Old Men (2007) — 90/100 · hit
  3. Barton Fink (1991) — 82/100 · hit

Lowest rated

  1. The Ladykillers (2004) — 59/100
  2. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) — 66/100
  3. Intolerable Cruelty (2003) — 66/100

Also on Movie Moneyball as writer, editor. Each page is a separate record.

How these numbers work: Methodology