This essay is a film review about the movie Millers Crossing directed by the Coen Brothers. Its a movie about organized crime and the bosses at the helm of it.

In my modest opinion, the film "Miller's Crossing" is Ethan and Joel Coen's greatest
achievement to date, even greater than Fargo and Oh Brother Where Art Thou. The only
criticism I've heard of this film has to do with the "over-acting"--a criticism that has been
directed at more than one Coen film. Admittedly, Coen screenplays read more like novels than
movie scripts and are not always actor-friendly.
The story starts with Tom (Gabriel Byrne), a loyal lieutenant of a crime boss named Leo
(Albert Finney) who is in a Prohibition-era turf war with his major rival, Johnny Caspar (Jon
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