Michael Stuhlbarg,
Richard Kind,
Fred Melamed,
Sari Lennick,
Aaron Wolff
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A black comedy set in 1967 and centered on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother won't move out of the house.
DVD Release Date: February 9, 2010
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February 10, 2010For me, A Serious Man came across as an enjoyable, stoned mosaic that never let me quite get my bearings. Never truly engaging but usually entertaining, the Coens latest rarely let up and give you time to digest what's happening to and with their sympathetic protagonist, Larry Go...( read more)
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February 9, 2010"When the truth is found to be lies, and all the hope within you dies..."
A black comedy set in 1967 and centered on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother won't move out of the house...( read more) -
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January 16, 2010After the instant, perfect classic of No Country For Old Men, the Coens went for pure farce in Burn After Reading. A Serious Man, however, is the Coens at their (in my opinion) best. It mixes dark and often cruel humour, with a realistic, if exaggerated, look at humanity. A Serio...( read more)
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January 10, 2010Maybe the last Great film of the decade and (for me at least) the Cohen brothers' finest film (even more so than Fargo or Blood Simple). Certainly their most emotionally rewarding - funny, poignant, breathtakingly restrained and more than a little devastating. A film that will s...( read more)
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February 10, 2010this was funny....low key funny that might be hilarious the second time. coen bros, you know what to expect
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February 9, 2010I would never say I am a fan of the Coen brothers. For the most part I find their movies over the top, redundant and overly long. A serious man was not nearly as dark as I had expected and for it's well-written yet not totally original plot, it was perfect in length.
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February 9, 2010I can't believe i watched this movie to the end. Well I think it was the end?????? As I read these reviews I wonder if I watched the same movie.
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February 9, 2010Black Comedy. That is how i just described this film to Francisco my colleague. He isn't much of a film critic even though he probably watches more movies than I do and he certainly goes to the cinema more often. He recommends Observe and Report so I don't take his opinion serio...( read more)
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February 9, 2010Coens' off-beat existential crisis lampoon melding a Kafka-esque nightmare of acute fear and dread to comicality. Ample mirth offsets the weight of Michael Stuhlbarg's honest man's life crashing progressively and more outlandishly down around him. Fred Melamed steals each of his...( read more)
Critic Reviews
November 12, 2009
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
October 9, 2009
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
It's hard to love a movie that makes you feel anxious and miserable, and yet it's impossible not to respect a movie that has that power. full review
October 8, 2009
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
While there are plenty of oddball touches, some mystifying (like the Yiddish-language prologue, set in a Polish shtetl and seeming to have little to do with what follows it; and the abrupt ending) -- ... full review
October 8, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
This isn't a laugh-laugh movie, but a wince-wince movie. Those can be funny, too. full review
October 2, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today
A Serious Man is a wonderfully odd, bleakly comic and thoroughly engrossing film. full review
October 2, 2009
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
This seriously funny movie, artfully photographed by the great Roger Deakins, is spiritual in nature, barbed in tone, and, oh, yeah, it stings like hell. full review
October 2, 2009
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
A Serious Man is, like its biblical source, a distilled, hyperbolic account of the human condition. The punch line is a little different, but you know the joke. And it's on you, of course. full review
October 1, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Man plans, God laughs, and so do the Coen brothers. full review
September 30, 2009
Armond White, The New York Press
A Serious Man rejects the bland Jewishness of Judd Apatow films; it's similar to the black filmmakers' project in Next Day Air, in which social stereotypes get burlesqued, yet are used to reveal an es... full review
September 28, 2009
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
A Serious Man is not only hauntingly original, it's the final piece of the puzzle that is the Coens. full review
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