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27May12
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Ulrich Jarløv.dk
7Apr12
THESE are faces I wanna look at for two hours. Who needs moviestars when you have actors like these? You can't take your eyes off 'em. They're perfect. So is the movie. This is the 3rd. masterpiece by the Coens to date. Their 1st. one was Barton Fink. Their 2nd: The Man Who Wasn't There.
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T. J. Harman
15Mar12
Tied with Barton Fink & No Country as my fave Coens film. Stulbarg was great. One of the best pot scenes I've seen in a movie (great use of Jefferson Airplane's "Today". Roger Deakin's cinematography was gorgeous. I read somewhere else that this film is really "more Kafka then Book of Job" and I have to agree.
Jardun
29Jan12
For me probably the most mature, and satisfying Coen film. Sometimes their endings leave me wanting more, but this ends perfectly.
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David Grillo
11Jan12
Brilliant I don't know of another film that explores the idea that we may never know the answer to any of the big questions it may just end.
Christopher A. Cook
8Jan12
No movie has ever filled me with dread before this. I was sitting hoping that nothing more would happen to our protagonist, but knowing it would. While still having the clever and funny bits the Coen's are known for, this movie is incredibly dark. Stuhlbarg is great, he is character is so passive, letting the world make his decisions for him and just coasting through. This may be the Coens best work. Sye Ableman?!
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Josh Hansen
24Oct11
The Coen Brothers' deepest, most "serious" film to date, loaded with existential crises and philosophical conundrums.
Steven FP Hoffart
16Aug11
I really had a tough time pinning down what this movie was about. I had to ask a friend, and once he told me I had to run back and see it again because what he told me just made everything click so much easier. The movie's like an inside joke that you need a background story to.
tertzak
17May11
Not sure whether universalism can be THE parochialism anymore. Am, however, convinced of the impending death of tradition, as well as the (perhaps minor) fact that this "minor classic" (the bros. first since Fargo) will go under-appreciated by most gentiles and advocates of a certain understanding of secularism. Though it may be to its credit that the latter is a deserving fate.
NFP
3May11
A deadly serious laugh out loud comedy that has completely burrowed under my skin. I can watch this over and over again.
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ILoveCourtneyHate
26Apr11
how do you follow up your Oscar winning 'masterpiece'? make an even better movie. A Serious Man is a film of boundless yet unassuming power similar in fact to Kubrick's 2001 or Tarkovsky, elemental, Larry Gopnik may as well be floating in space. though not my favourite from the Coens, this may be the greatest testament to their brilliance, the film is so full of subtle ebbs and flows it feels like a planet of its own
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Wick
7Mar11
A film so complex and stratified that not only I don't think I understood it, but I also doubt I ever will -- nevertheless it moved me and conquered my heart and mind.
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Kirby
27Feb11
An odd but great movie with an excellent performance by Michael Stuhlbarg. The fact that he did NOT receive an Oscar nomination is a huge injustice on the Academy's part.
Bruno François-Boucher
10Feb11
Film après film les frères Coen tissent une oeuvre inimitable, extrêmement riche d'invention et de créativité, à laquelle il faut ajouter "A serious man", que je viens de découvrir, et qui ne dépareille pas au milieu de leurs autres chefs d'oeuvre. Pour moi et de manière définitive, les Coen font partie des plus grands cinéastes du monde.