Many critics believe that A Serious Man is a modern midrash on the book of Job, and it is easy to see why. Larry Gopnick’s life is a mess. He is up for tenure at his university; a student is ...

But if you’re expecting something warm and fuzzy, circa 1967, you don’t know the Coens, and A Serious Man is no country for you. ... Grace Slick, on the radio, gets closer to the point, ...

If this film has a point, it's this: "Life is pointless, and so is this movie." ...

The Coen brothers’ films have always been funny, cerebral, hermetic, sardonic to the point of nihilism, and preoccupied with human suffering but allergic to sentimentality. In short, they’ve ...

A review "A Serious Man" — one of the Coen Brothers' most personal, and likable, films.

“I’ve tried to be a serious man. I’ve tried to do right,” Gopnik laments more than once. Haven’t we all, this unexpected film, at once comic and haunting, asks.

Wilson Webb/Focus FeaturesMichael Stuhlbarg, foreground, and Adam Arkin star in Joel and Ethan Coen's "A Serious Man." “A Serious Man” Movie Review -- The Coen brothers make two kinds of movies.

The fourteenth feature of Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man is the first that seems vaguely personal, which means just outside their ultracontrolled comfort zone: I got the feeling they had ...

A Serious Man considers a lot in its relatively short, one-hour and 46-minute runtime. There's no solution to the Coen brothers film, just a few ideas that can be gleamed like a magic eye puzzle ...