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 ...

Ethan Coen, left, and Joel Coen, winners of the achievement in directing award for "No Country for Old Men" pose in the press room during the 80th annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre on ...

A Serious Man may be the most complex movie of the Coen brothers' career, and that's saying a lot, but an ending like the one in this film can be picked apart for decades. The Coen brothers have a ...

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Joel and Ethan Coen’s Latest, A Serious Man, is a portrait of a period (1967) and place (Minnesota) and milieu (Jewish) that the brothers know very well. They cast it with excellent actors; Richard ...

As I was walking back from the theater after seeing A Serious Man I was stopped on the street by a guy and his buddy. Of course, my guard was instantly up. Stranger danger! Would he want me to buy a ...

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 ...

True to form the Cohen brother’s latest film not only stretches the boundaries of modern day cinema but also unapologetically creates a world where the seemingly mundane is dissected to reveal a life ...

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 ...