Overshadowed by the premiere of the gangster film masterpiece Goodfellas the same month, writer/director duo Joel and Ethan Coen's take on the genre, Miller's Crossing, is unique in its own right. The Coen Brothers managed to do something that few other mob movies had done before, weave a level of dark humor and satire into an otherwise mostly serious neo-noir. Filled with quirky characters and imbued with a light-hearted slant towards some of the violence within, Miller's Crossing is saturated with the hallmark style the Coens would hone throughout their careers and become known for. The film is able to poke fun at some of the aspects of gangster films that came before it proving that there is room for gangster movies to take themselves less seriously, while still maintaining a central moral conflict in its main character that is anything but humorous.
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