This is a real step up in film making for the Coens from all their previous works, to this, debatable their finest.

Everything here is perfect from the pacing, the cinematography, the performances and script and the score.

Marge's final few scenes encapsulate a wisdom and heartfelt frustration that is very moving and one i whole heartedly embrace.

Gerry is such a loathsome, squirming, passive aggressive little rat that only the beautiful soul of Marge could be the anti-dote and she is in spades here.

It's a grim tale told without any cynicism and a few wry laughs that we have come to expect from the brothers, mainly around the bugling kidnappers.