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Asking questions about the universe won't get you very far, as the Coen brothers comically show in their most Jewish film yet Reviewed by Jonathan Romney You should pardon the cliche, but you don't have to be Jewish to like the new Coen brothers film.

Larry Gopnik is in suburban hell. Like Job, he is a decent man to whom bad things happen: His wife wants a divorce .

At the urging of good friends, Ruthie and I went to see the film "A Serious Man" some two weeks ago.

It's not something that would have been interesting or easy to do in our 20s or 30s, but many years later you kind of go: "Well, it seems a little more interesting." I'm not really sure why, but we decided to revisit that place in that time.

A Serious Man is the latest offering from the Coen brothers and is a black comedy set in 1967 and centered on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother won't move out of the house.

THE TWILIGHT Saga's New Moon is a vampire love story you can get your teeth stuck into.

WILD BLUE PONDER The closest Stuhlbarg gets to heaven is his TV aerial in the Coen's modern twist on The Book of Job .

While true to the Coens' absurdist spirit, 'A Serious Man' - unusually for them - features a realistic, empathetic character in a realistic setting, the suburban Midwest in the 1960s.

He also delivers a little insight into what to expect from his next project, Scorsese's HBO drama Boardwalk Empire a Q. I gather the Coens tortured you in real-life almost as much as they do your central character before they gave you the role? Michael Stuhlbarg: [Laughs] They did indeed! It was quite a journey for me getting this part.

ICM just signed Michael Stuhlbarg, who is receiving Oscar buzz for his role in the Coen Brother's film A SERIOUS MAN.

While many commentators have observed that the Coen Brothers' latest offering A Serious Man marks a significant departure from the filmmakers' previous work, a crucial aspect of its novelty has attracted little attention.

BAD things happening to good people is just not funny. Except when Lucie got kicked off X Factor.

The perfect follow-up for those moviegoers who were simply crushed when Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen wrapped up at a too-brief 142 minutes, 2012 contributes another 158 minutes to the cause of wham-bam-thank-you-man cinema.

"A Serious Man," the latest film by Joel and Ethan Coen , is still on a few screens in the area.

In the never-ending quest for cinematic gems hidden in the weekly TV listings, here's what I'll be watching this week: Frances McDormand in the Coen brothers' quirky 1996 crime drama 'Fargo.' What : "Fargo," the quirky 1996 crime drama that earned the Coen brothers their first Oscar as well as a Best Actress statuette for Frances McDormand.

In this dark comedy the Coen brothers return to tell a tale of a moral man who sees the world inexplicably turn against him.

A rare feud brewing between Yiddish theater companies is burning hotter than, well, chicken fat on a fire.

"A Serious Man," the latest dark comedy from the eclectic minds of the Oscar-winning Coen brothers, comes to New Orleans theaters today with a full complement of Coen-esque trappings.

I couldn't wait for "A Serious Man" to end. Seriously. Written and directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen, 104 minutes.

Mel Brooks once had a song called - Jews in Outer Space.' That's sort of the idea," explains Joel Coen.