There is not a Coen brothers film (well, can't speak for "Intolerable Cruelty" or "The Ladykillers" yet) that is anything less than brilliantly crafted and apt to reveal layers and layers of thematic depth the longer it sits with you. Philosophy and existential mystery course through every frame, only strengthened by…

"Carol" is brilliant in part because it truly empowers the queer gaze. Where so many films show the act of queer looking to be largely unilateral and unfulfilled (the queer subject can look but *only* look, and only covertly at that), "Carol" allows both subjects' gazes to be active and reciprocated, and they do not…