Critics are going crazy for the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man, some even calling it their best movie. That's a bold statement, considering they made Fargo and The Big Lebowski. Oh, and 2007 Best Picture winner No Country For Old Men.
Today it opens in just six theaters:
* Pacific ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood, Hollywood
* The Landmark, Los Angeles
* Landmark Uptown Theater, Minneapolis
* Clearview @ 1st and 62, New York
* Landmark Sunshine Cinema, New York
* Lincoln Plaza Cinema 6, New York
Check the Focus Features site to see if and when it will be expanding near you.
"Like many Coen films, it has a huge streak of shaggy dog to it — working far better as thematic exploration than as a movie unto itself — but you sense how deeply and profoundly it all matters to the duo (something they haven't always displayed with other films)."
— Rob Vaux, filmcritic.com
"Joel and Ethan Coen mine their adolescences in the mid-1960s Midwest and strike blackly comic Jewish gold with one of their finest films..."
— Lou Lumenick, New York Post
"Are the Coens jokers who tread on despair, or tragedians with a penchant for death's-head humor? Either way, Serious Man is their bleakest comedy. Its spiraling slapstick cruelty encompasses elements from both the lugubrious No Country for Old Men and the antic Burn After Reading, yet it easily outclasses both by endowing the put-upon puppet with a human dimension so that laughter is caught in our throats."
— Fernando F. Croce, Slant Magazine
"A Serious Man is a wonderfully odd, bleakly comic and thoroughly engrossing film. Underlying the grim humor are serious questions about faith, family, mortality and misfortune."
— Claudia Puig, USA Today