Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

brownsfan-63907 I literally created an account just to write this review. I was scrolling on Netflix and came across this movie. I decided to google it and saw that it had a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes!! After watching the movie, I can tell you that rating is absolute blasphemy.This is by far the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. I am genuinely upset that I spent 2 hours of my life on this film. I would have rather spent two hours watching The Emoji Movie. Don't be afraid of any spoilers in this post because nothing happens throughout the course of the movie. It is a movie about nothing. Every character is so damn unlikable and the movie itself is set in the most average place on earth. I want to sue the Coen Brothers for the two hours I wasted on this film. I waited through the entire movie clinging onto hope that something, ANYTHING, of significance would happen but I found nothing but an endless tunnel of boredom along the way. The movie had a chance to redeem itself by having Michel and Mrs. Samsky bang but even that didn't happen.I can't believe how many snobby reviews there are rating this as a "masterpiece". Get over yourselves and admit that this is a horribly boring movie.

Wilder Liddle A Serious Man has a quirky feel with dark undertones much like Fargo. Both mid West, A Serious Man takes its character from the more urban, yet similarly bleak suburbs of 1960's Minnesota, and the exaggerated Jewishness of the characters. A clear palette of oranges and browns, this film feels about as Coen as you can get. The entire film carries this sinister sense of a soulless suburban life, while also playing on complex themes of Yiddish folklore.It opens with this horror like 1800's Eastern European scene of a Jewish man inviting a supposed dybbuk into his household. The questioning of paranormal devil like themes so early on sets the film up to be that of impending peril. The entire film essentially focuses on the continual failings and misfortune of Larry Gopnik, a physics professor with a failing marriage. Much like Fargo, the similarly terrible events juxtapose the almost innocence of the characters, as we watch Gopnik's world fall apart, the whole interactions of the characters are just so mundane. This creates that typical Coen black comedic effect. Much like Fargo's Steve Buscemi, calmly explaining how he will "have to, you know shoot you", Larry is easily let down time and time again by other characters, to the extent where it appears almost funny.

Filipe Neto Although they sometimes provide us with almost incomprehensible films and this is quite unpleasant, the Coen Brothers deserve my respect for the very skillful way they usually balanced themselves, with one foot in intellectual cinema (which spends more time in festivals than in theaters) and another foot in the common commercial cinema. In this case, I confess that I was expecting something different, although I do not know exactly what I was expecting.The film has a very simple yet effective structure, clearly inspired by the biblical story of Job: Larry is a respected Jewish teacher who teaches at a Jewish college, is married, and has a couple of children. But his life quickly turns into an ordeal: his wife has a lover and asks for a divorce; His children only think of them and the younger one uses drugs; His job at school is put at the stake after a dissatisfied student causes him some problems... this dilemma makes Larry turn to his faith and seek an answer to the simpler question: "Why". The Jewish rabbis are unanimous: this is an answer we almost never get. The audience understands the story but the subliminal message is so subtle that it can pass alongside. The ending, open and sudden, displeased me because I was waiting for a conclusion. Only later I understand that the end of the movie comes when we least expect it, just like the end of our life.Religion and philosophy are always present. However, it's not one of those films that you need to have a PhD to understand, although it's complex and tries to provoke some reflection. It's also far from being preachy because, as I easily realized, religion is almost an element of humor and parody. Nor could the irony of the Coen Brothers be absent. In addition to all the jokes around religion, there is also harsh criticism of our society. All the people in the film appear to be honest, serious and reliable but this, as the film subtly reveals, is an illusion. Each one has its sins and things that they want to hide, but they are "serious men".

erosthanatosfilms What could be said about this film that hasn't been poured over by film geeks already? The absurdist humor that fills each scene serves as a double for the exploration of life as a whole. After an interesting, albeit unrelated prologue we are introduced to a protagonist whose life is soon to be turned upside down when his wife asks for a divorce, both legally and religiously, so that she may marry a man whom with she may or may not be having an affair. He's up for tenure and the review board is receiving obscene letters in an attempt to damage his character. There's many factors at play, slowly working on him that act as cathartic humor to release the tensions of our own existential angst by seeing someone else go through all of the worst first world problems that a middle aged white man could go through in a lifetime. Definitely a must see for anyone that enjoys laughing at uncomfortable situations.