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Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

It’s a work of cruel comic genius, in some ways even crueler than “No Country for Old Men.’’Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Have I mentioned A Serious Man is so rich and funny? This isn't a laugh-laugh movie, but a wince-wince movie. Those can be funny too.Read the full review

Slate | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

A Serious Man is an exquisitely realized work; the filmmakers' technical mastery of their craft, always impressive, has become absolute. The script reads like a novel, densely allusive, funny, and terse.Read the full review

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  • 86% A Serious Man

    11/19/09 Blending dark humor with profoundly personal themes, the Coen brothers deliver what might be their most mature -- if not their best -- film to date.  |  Rotten Tomatoes
  • A Serious Man

    11/15/09 The Coen brothers' 2007 multiple Oscar winner "No Country for Old Men" gave the sharp cinema-savvy ironists their first major Academy wins.  |  Variety
  • Press Release - Focus Features Reminds Us That It Makes Money

    11/12/09 Focus president Andrew Karpen noted, "This month's tremendous showing at the American Film Market once again proves the resiliency and flexibility of Focus' global approach to the business. The breadth, depth, and nuance we bring to the international release of each film on our slate - and our ability domestically to manage every kind of release, from specialized platforms to wide openings - is what truly defines Focus's unique approach."  |  The Hot Blog - Movie City News
  • Oy, a duel!

    11/06/09 A rare feud brewing between Yiddish theater companies is burning hotter than, well, chicken fat on a fire. members of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene — one of the city's oldest stage troupes — against a breakaway upstart, the New Yiddish Repertory.  |  New York Post - New York NY
  • Indie Roundup: 'Splinterheads,' 'Ghost World,' 'Devil'

    11/04/09 Amiable and pleasant, Splinterheads revolves around a romance between Justin ( Thomas Middleditch ), an aimless small town dreamer, and Galaxy ( Rachael Taylor ), a gorgeous grifter who (literally) bumps into him at a gas station.  |  Cinematical.com
  • 84% A Serious Man

    11/04/09 Blending dark humor with profoundly personal themes, the Coen brothers deliver what might be their most mature -- if not their best -- film to date.  |  Rotten Tomatoes
  • Oscar screenplay race lacking originality

    11/02/09 Since it was introduced 70 years ago, the Academy Awards' original screenplay category has been a breeding ground for fresh new voices, launching careers and solidifying the legacy of writers as diverse as Orson Welles, Billy Wilder and Paddy Chayefsky.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • Award-season films feel '60s nostalgia

    10/30/09 Do you take advantage of the new freedoms?" purrs sexy next-door neighbor Mrs. Samsky in the Coen brothers' 1967-set "A Serious Man." The question looms large over a number of this year's award-season films, many of them set either on the cusp of that moment of revolutionary change in the '60s ("An Education," "A Single Man"), during its heyday ("A Serious Man," "Nine," "Pirate Radio") or as its gleam began to wear off and turn darker ("The Damned United," "The Lovely Bones").  |  Variety
  • Coen brothers 'Serious' about Stuhlbarg

    10/29/09 He's a good guy," is how Michael Stuhlbarg describes Larry Gopnik, an angst-ridden Jewish math professor who questions God, guilt and the meaning of life in "A Serious Man," Joel and Ethan Coen's semiautobiographical nod to their 1960s suburban Minneapolis upbringing.  |  Variety
  • Michael Jackson's Run In With Tyrese Gibson And The REAL 'Spider-Man 4' Villain In Today's Twitter-Wood

    10/28/09 The Twitter-Wood feed assembled after the jump is the fine work of Mr. Brian Warmoth, but he seems to have disappeared before finishing the evening's intro bump.  |  MTV Movies Blog