A Serious Man

...racier and more commercially successful Coen brothers return to their Jewish, midwestern roots in their latest - and cruellest - comedy, A Serious Man. Their 14th film is essentially a comically deadpan update of the Old Testament Book...

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...brothers raid both the Old Testament and their own family history for their latest film, and the result is a nervy philosophical farce. A Serious Man represents the brothers at their sardonic best, wringing a sacrilegious amount of gallows...

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...alienated and even dismayed by it at the same time? In the case of the Coen Brothers' movies, I'm afraid that's a regretful yes. A Serious Man, their latest, is being touted as their most "personal" film, and its vision of a suburban...

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...one of their bleakest, coldest and least heartfelt. Set in the uniformly bland, enclosed Minneapolis suburb of St Louis Park in 1967, A Serious Man recreates an era straight out of the brothers' childhood and proceeds to use it as the...

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The Coen Brothers' A Serious Man insists on the absurdity of human existence. Coen brothers; Michael Stuhlbarg; Sari Lennick; Rating: * * * After the final scene of the Coen brothers' A Serious Man is over, at the very end of its closing...

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Joel and Ethan Coen returned to make their 14th feature film, "A Serious Man," with a budget of $7 million - less than half of their past two films' budgets and their lowest since "Raising Arizona" in 1987. It's doubtful the Coen brothers...

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Gold Derby nuggets: 'A Serious Man' & 'An Education' go for laughs at Globes | Oscarcast gets new director | 'Precious' honored by PGA • Gold Derby has learned "A Serious Man" and "An Education" are aiming to enter the Golden Globes race...

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<font color="red"><b>"A Serious Man"</b></font> may be the most provocative film this year (L-R) Adam Arkin as Don Milgram and Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik in "A Serious Man." If there ever was a film to support the theory that no...

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...guilt, redemption and responsibility rooted in Judaic culture. Set in the Coens' hometown of St. Louis Park, Minn., in the summer of 1967, "A Serious Man" is the filmmaking duos' ode to the often-overlooked trials and tribulations of...

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...Man Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:25 PM Did you read Sean Nelson's great review of A Serious Man, the new Coen Brothers movie? A Serious Man plumbs depths even major Coen devotees might not have imagined were there.

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