The always surprising Coen brothers have finally made a very serious movie. It's about God, man's place in the world and the meaning of life, so naturally it's one of their funnier movies.

There is only so much doom and misfortune a person can take--even in a Coen Brothers movie. The wittiest scene in Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2001 film The Man Who Wasn’t There is one in which a ...

A Serious Man Production: A Focus Features release presented in association with StudioCanal and Relativity Media of a Working Title production. Produced by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen.

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.

A Serious Man only has one jump scare, and its tone is certainly atypical for the horror genre, but the categorization is still appropriate, and only serves to make the film more fascinating.

Photos courtesy of Focus FeaturesMichael Stuhlbarg and Fred Melamed in a scene from "A Serious Man."STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- If you’re looking for the Jewish movie to end all Jewish movies, call ...

A Serious Man is an absorbing, perplexing and endlessly thought-provoking film, the kind of film you get to make when you've just won a bag of Oscars.

As soon as the movie opens, though, his world suddenly and unexpectedly collapses. His wife decides to leave him; his expected tenure is thrown into chaos, and he can't find a rabbi who will help him.

Indeed, the movie itself is similarly difficult to pin down: part tragedy, part epistemological inquiry, part Jewish comedy of manners. The film opens with a prologue, a 19th century ghost story ...

You probably have to be a serious Coen fan to love A Serious Man. I plead guilty and if you are too, read on. In-between their more serious offerings like No Country for Old Men or Fargo, the ...

“A Serious Man,” the Coen brothers' most explicitly autobiographical movie to date, may well come to be seen by Coen disciples as the filmmakers’ ur-text, a distillation of the themes ...