
I wish I could write a thoughtful, penetrating review of the Coen Brothers’ latest offering, A Serious Man, but to be perfectly honest, the film threw me off. I appreciate it, and relate to it (especially as a Jewish man who remembers his bar mitzvah—and the 1960s—all too well)—but I don’t know quite what to make of it. The Coens have said this is “a schlemiel story,” which is...
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