Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

This isn't the cute, accessible period piece that some audiences might be expecting, but the Coens once again prove that their seemingly random and chaotic chord progressions lead somewhere wonderful.

It's the movie's profound undercurrent of sadness that gets to you.

Inside Llewyn Davis is a brilliant work of art.

A wry and beautifully understated study of loss, as frequently biting as it is moving, it slips directly into contention with the Coens' finest work.

The Coen Brothers' remarkable 'Inside Llewyn Davis' is a conjuring act of near-magical conviction, an ode to the artistic spirit that's as uncompromising as the troubled genius it chronicles.

As played by an eloquently beleaguered Oscar Isaac, Llewyn Davis is arguably the most vivid and complex character the Coens have dreamed up since Marge Gunderson.

A wise, wintry ode to artistry lost, found and placed in storage.

If O Brother, Where Art Thou was loosely based on The Odyssey, I think Inside Llewyn Davis is the Coen Brothers' Alice in Wonderland,

Inside Llewyn Davis is another burnished gem from filmmakers who can only be described as "treasures" at this point, and one of 2013's most unassuming pleasures.