The Big Lebowski is at once utterly inconsequential and a blow for a cinematic slacker aesthetic.

25 years later, the movie where every detail matters and doesn’t matter at all, is as hilarious as ever – and more poignant, man.

With their inspired, absurdist taste for weird, peculiar Americana, the Coens have defined and mastered their own bizarre subgenre. No one does it like them and, it almost goes without saying, no one does it better.

Bridge's thespian mastery, via the slacker zeitgeist of our time, converts The Dude's funniest lines into a readily-understood language of everyday desperation. This ultimately begat the religion of Dudeism. Which makes 'Lebowski' an important movie.