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49
Viewer score based on 177 votes.

Critic Score

79
Critics' score based on 35 reviews.
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whoever thought this moive was bad seriously is dumb and has issues. this is, so funny and brilliant, they went no where wrong. a brillitant coen... thers film! ucchh, i love itt!! Full Review

September 17,2011
foney372

This movie should win the Anti-Academy Award. It is one of the most depressing and senseless movies of the decade. There is no point other than... s serious man has misery in his life. Then when things start to go back together, he is informed of some major illness. Who wants to watch this theme? The movie had no great plot, no great actors, no great acting, no great point, no great special effects, no great love story.....a pointless movie that did not even entertain. WOW....Just don't go see it!!!! Full Review

March 28,2010
Neal Gibbons Esq

WOW I was SO DISAPOINTED! I ************* to the anti-climactic end of that bleak almost painful long and drawn out torture! It was a wasted two... s of my life, I like almost every movie I watch, and am not the type to post a reveiw, but you know this movie was SO BAD that I had to post a reveiw!! Full Review

March 18,2010
tanya56303

A good movie is a good movie regardless of race.unlike the above reviewers I will no blame the failure of this movie on ethnicity but rather talent.

March 05,2010
Od8671

Loved this movie, The ending is querky and conjures up conversation.

March 03,2010
Rpm7474
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Critic Reviews

It’s a work of cruel comic genius, in some ways even crueler than “No Country for Old Men.’’Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

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.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

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.Full Review

Dana Stevens
Slate

The movie is funny, definitely funny. But underlying the humor is a vision so bleak, so despairing and so utterly hopeless as to make "No Country for Old Men" almost look cheerful.Full Review

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle

Writer-directors Joel and Ethan have seized the opportunity afforded by the Oscar-winning success of "No Country for Old Men," to make their most personal, most intensely Jewish film, a pitch-perfect comedy of despair that, against some odds, turns out to be one of their most universal as well.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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