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 the way all their films are departures. It’s an expansion, a magnification, a breakthrough. Yes, like all their movies, it’s kind of a big joke, but a joke with the darkest punch line ever. The Coen brothers, who for 25 years have been called cold formalists with more interest in Steadicams and storyboards than in human characters, have made a movie about the twilight of the Jewish soul.
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