Third favorite Coen brothers film! Actually bumped my rating of this by 1-point from the last time I watched it. Dunno if it's because I'm riding high off of just seeing the TV show for the first time or what. But I've really grown to love the general atmosphere of a deep-winter Minnesota.
It's frankly just entertaining to watch criminals suck at being criminals while a competent law enforcer hunts them down. The script also seems to me like the Platonic ideal of a Coen brothers' script. Fairly tight story, except for the odd Yanagita scenes that always seemed out of place to me.