A Serious Man
Focus Features | Release Date: October 2, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
88
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
32
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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60
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
What do the Coen brothers want of us? More specifically, what do they want us to think of the repellent people in this pitilessly bleak movie? Read full review
60
The New YorkerDavid Denby
A Serious Man, like “Burn After Reading,” is in their bleak, black, belittling mode, and it’s hell to sit through. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The humor is sharp and so are the judgments, which pile on until the characters are nearly suffocated under the weight of so much disdain. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
All the Coens come up with is a movie about bad things happening to limited people. Read full review
50
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike Scott
The only thing missing from the film -- which is frequently amusing but too bleak to be consistently laugh-out-loud funny -- is a genuine connection with its audiences, or at least those audiences not raised in 1960s Jewish suburbia. Read full review
50
Village VoiceElla Taylor
As usual, though, the Coens have more venal satisfactions in mind. "The fun of the story for us," they crow in the notes for this loathsome movie, "was inventing new ways to torture Larry." Read full review
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