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 ...

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 ...

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. It’s not a departure, ...

Get excited, says Sean Nelson. The new Coen brothers movie is awesome: A Serious Man plumbs depths even major Coen devotees might not have imagined were there. It’s not a departure, exactly—except in ...