- Better on DVD: Nearly every one of their films not only stands up to, but demands multiple viewings.
- Broken Base: The one Coen Brothers' film that has divided their fans was Intolerable Cruelty. Some liked it, others thought it was the Brothers' failed attempt at making a "mainstream" film.
- The Lady Killers also divided opinions, but tilted far closer to a "misfire" consensus.
- Complete Monster: In Order: Loren Visser, Leonard Smalls, Charlie Meadows, Gaear Grimsrud, "Big" Dan Teague and Anton Chigurh. And hilariously subverted in The Big Lebowski, where the nihilists only have pretensions to this.
- Cult Classic: Pretty much all of them, but most famously The Big Lebowski
- Magnum Opus: Fargo, The Big Lebowski, or No Country for Old Men.