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The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen’s new movie — a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be a dybbuk — is pretty clumsy, but at least it tips its hat to the ...

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The Coen Brothers don’t care what I think of their latest movie. Nor, judging from their annoying but pleasantly perplexing comedy, do they care what anyone thinks about it. A Serious Man takes place ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Focus Features / Universal Pictures / StudioCanal A Serious Man is a black-comedy drama film helmed by the Coen ...

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. By Kirk ...

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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 little ...

The Coen brothers’ 2007 multiple Oscar winner “No Country for Old Men” gave the sharp cinema-savvy ironists their first major Academy wins. While “A Serious Man” is widely considered a lesser exercise ...

The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, are getting personal. They shot their new film in suburban Minnesota, where they grew up as sons of Jewish academics. But if you’re expecting something warm and ...