When the venerable filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen announced a hiatus from their nearly four-decade partnership to focus on solo projects, I was intrigued and apprehensive. Such endeavors don’t always pan out (just ask Mick Jagger).

Joel Coen went on to partner with his wife, Frances McDormand, to make a visually captivating rendition of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Meanwhile, his brother, Ethan, collaborated with his own wife, Tricia Cooke, who had edited many of the Coens’ most memorable screenplays, for a raunchy dark comedy titled Drive-Away Dolls.