- Studio: Focus Features
- Release Date: Oct 2, 2009
- Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick
- Summary:
- Director: Ethan Coen
- Genre(s): Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 35
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Mixed: 2 out of 35
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Negative: 3 out of 35
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100Have I mentioned A Serious Man is so rich and funny? This isn't a laugh-laugh movie, but a wince-wince movie. Those can be funny too.
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50The humor is sharp and so are the judgments, which pile on until the characters are nearly suffocated under the weight of so much disdain.
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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."
Score distribution:
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Positive: 39 out of 72
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Mixed: 13 out of 72
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Negative: 20 out of 72
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