I think the key to American culture and the American economy is that Americans have a deep need to be catered to by service workers that they feel free to abuse.

They'll give up a lot of other goods to keep that.

My boomer coworker complained endlessly about no one wanting to work as state unemployment levels hovered around 2.0% because service at the restaurants was slower because everyone with an option got the fuck out of the service industry.

The rejection of all reality is the theme of this age

(George Lucas has a defiant personality and I think everyone telling him "Your writing sucks!" made him go, "Oh, you think that? Well I'm going to suck even harder then.")

Regardless of what “people” “feel,” the official ranking is:

TIER 1
Miller’s Crossing
Inside Llewyn Davis
A Serious Man
No Country for Old Men

TIER 2
The Big Lebowski
Raising Arizona
Fargo
Barton Fink

TIER 3
The Man Who Wasn’t There
True Grit
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Burn After Reading