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Avg. Critic Score: 65 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 Iffy for 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Just when you're certain that Jarmusch is treading water with his borderline-tedious cleverness, something happens: Coffee and Cigarettes turns into a movie FULL of talk -- rich, supple, hilarious, masterfully orchestrated talk. Read full review

  • 80
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    In Jarmusch's capable hands, the mundane has never been so delightful. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    Jarmusch's use of yin/yang, dark/light and good/evil symbolism makes glorious if goofy sense. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    Known for an elegant visual style, Jarmusch has a great gift for playing actors against one another, for finding complementary eccentrics (Murray and RZA) and uncovering rare gems (Bill Rice and Taylor Mead in "Champagne"). Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Jarmusch makes it a feast that plays like a haunting concept album. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Sometimes movies tire us by trying too relentlessly to pound us with their brilliance and energy. Here is a movie pitched at about the energy level of a coffee break. That the people are oddly assorted and sometimes very strange is not so very unusual, considering some of the conversations you overhear in Starbucks. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    The implication that beauty and meaning can be found in odd places at unlikely, idle moments resonates through this lovely film. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Deborah Young

    Holding the film together are simple but strong B&W visuals of offbeat types sitting around a table smoking and drinking java while they talk. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Too slight and pointless. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Flat and uninspired. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+ Curious collection of shorts will bore most kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie is nothing more than people sitting around drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes and talking about various things. This film has no plot and no story structure. It's a series of vignettes, short scenes that are like little slices of life. There is no violence or sexuality and some profanity, but the content of the film is based on conversation of rather mundane experiences.
  • Families can talk about the conflicted message about smoking cigarettes that comes across in this film. To what extent does this film glorify the practice of smoking and drinking coffee? To what extent does it discourage such behavior? How can such a film be made at a time when the dangers of smoking are so widely known?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: To some extent it glorifies drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes, making it seem somewhat "cool," though there is much discussion of the negative health implications of drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Not an issue
  • sex false0 Sex: Not an issue
  • language false5 Language: A lot of use of the F-word.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Some mention of fast food chains in random discussion, but no major commercialism.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false5 Drinking, drugs and smoking: A lot of cigarette smoking.
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