A canny “fixer” (Gabriel Byrne) finds himself in a tight spot trying to broker a truce between rival gang bosses (Albert Finney and Jon Polito) in this savvy and stylish homage to American crime fiction and films. The Coen’s clever comingling of Dashiell Hammett’s novels The Glass Key and Red Harvest allows them to lovingly recreate the iconography and language of the hardboiled 1930s.