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A Serious Man

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Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.

Cast

  • Michael Stuhlbarg
  • Richard Kind
  • Fred Melamed
  • Sari Lennick
  • Aaron Wolff
  • Jessica McManus
  • Amy Landecker
  • Peter Breitmayer
  • Brent Braunschweig
  • David Kang

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Metacritic

91

Working with affectionate mockery, the Coens take the cinder-block-synagogue banality of American Jewish life in 1967 and make it look as archly exotic as the loopy Scandinavian-American winterscape of Fargo.

Metacritic review by Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
88

The presence of so many low-key performers gives A Serious Man a very different, distinctly non-Hollywood vibe. The absence of familiar faces allows the Coens to fully immerse their audience in the time (1967) and place (the U.S. Midwest) of the story.

Metacritic review by James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
100

I found this beautifully crafted movie to be frequently hilarious, consistently surprising and rigged with spring-loaded narrative bombs, from its opening scene to its devastating final shot.

Andrew O'Hehir
Salon