Where all hope and sorrow reside

This has gotten absolutely horrible reviews. Partly for a good reason. Perhaps the hardest thing here is to understand that this is Ethan Coen's work. Because he has been, together with his brother Joel Coen, creating so many masterpieces. Drive-Away Dolls is far from a masterpiece and doesn't even qualify as a cult film. It has a lot of Coenesque themes, but a lot of worryingly cheap and artificial humor. A lot of good stuff too, not worthy of a crushing critique, but a miss nonetheless. The only great things about this is that it looks like a great movie, technically.