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A Serious Man

September 2019

  • From left: Moonlight, The Handmaiden, There Will Be Blood, Under the Skin

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best films of the 21st century

    Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

October 2015

  • Michael Stuhlbarg in the Coen brothers' A Serious Man.

    Seriously big break: how a call from the Coens changed Michael Stuhlbarg's life

    The Coen brothers lit a rocket under his career when they cast him in A Serious Man. As Michael Stuhlbarg prepares to play a computer nerd in Steve Jobs, the actor talks about finding his Hollywood sea legs

March 2010

  • White Ribbon

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
    Mark Kermode on DVDs

    This week: The White Ribbon, A Serious Man and Zombieland

December 2009

  • 2009 in review
    2009 in film: our critics' picks

    Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks and Andrew Pulver share their personal favourites, ranging from a poetic look at rural wales (Sleep Furiously) to the Coens' best film (A Serious Man), via Swedish vampires (Let the Right One In) and Lars von Trier's controversial Antichrist

  • In praise of ...
    In praise of ... the Coen brothers

    Editorial: What unfolds for Larry Gopnik in A Serious Man is less a plot, and more a hard fall down a long flight of stairs

  • Scene from the Coen brothers' A Serious Man

    Film blog
    No Globe nominations for the Coens? They can't be serious

    Andrew Pulver: How could the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have given so much to Nine, Avatar and Inglourious Basterds, only to neglect A Serious Man?

November 2009

  • A Serious Man

    A Serious Man and the odd movie out

  • The Twilight Saga: New Moon

    Film blog
    New Moon enters new phase for Twilight franchise

  • a-serious-man-coen-brothers

    A Serious Man

  • Reel review
    A Serious Man: 'The Coens' most personal film to date'

  • A Serious Man

  • Film blog
    Meeting Marshak: a consummate exclusive clip from the Coen brothers' A Serious Man

  • A Serious Man: a clip from the Coen brothers' latest

  • Michael Tomasky's blog
    Off-topic post on whether the Coen brothers made an intentional historical error

October 2009

  • Scene from the Coen brothers' A Serious Man

    A Serious Man

  • Trailer park
    Film trailer: A Serious Man

August 2009

  • Scene from the Coen brothers' A Serious Man

    Film blog
    A Serious Man trailer: another gem to savour from the Coen brothers

    Ben Walters: Who else would use the sound of a head striking a blackboard as the base rhythm for a suburban comedy promo?

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