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This week on Instant NetFlix: "Barton Fink" After seeing the Coen Bros. newest film, "A Serious Man," I realized one thing was missing - " besides an enjoyable script - " and that's Jesus.

It is reassuring to discover at the end of A Serious Man that "No Jews were harmed during the making of this film". But the same cannot be said of the reputation of its directors, Ethan and Joel Coen.

Michael Stuhlbarg gets serious in the Coen brothersa latest. A Serious Man / Films by the Coen brothers usually fall under three genres, unless you make a fourth slot for a oeill-conceiveda -looking at you, The Ladykillers ! But otherwise, therea s the grim crime thriller and the wacky hyper comedy .

Cinematographer Roger Deakins discusses a shot on A Serious Man , the latest of 10 films Deakins has made with the Coen brothers.

As an exercise in futility , let's imagine what might have happened had A Serious Man been made by gentiles, or, Hashem forbid, by Arabs.

My father-in-law is right about Coen Brothers movies: Each features some interesting comedic nugget or stylistic detail to gnaw on.

The Coen brothers aren't sure whether their latest movie is a comedy or a tragedy - that is for the viewers to figure out.

It's not all Fargo Oscars and No Country for Old Men box-office glory for the filmmaking Coen Brothers .

The standard line on A Serious Man, and I see no reason to deviate from it, is that this is the Coen brothers' most "personal" work to date.

SHLEMIEL, SHLEMAZEL! Michael Stuhlbarg stars as the bumbling Larry Gopnik in the Coen brothers' A Serious Man.

The Dude Abides -- John Goodman and Jeff Bridges in "The Big Lebowski." A Serious Man , the new movie from the Coen Brothers, arrives -- as so many of their films -- to cheers and jeers.

Emmy-winning actor Tony Shalhoub's unusually broad career included critical success in stage dramas, off-beat independent films and primetime comedy.

CLOSE Release Date: October 9, 2009 Rating: R Genre: Drama Run Time: 105 min. Director: Ethan and Joel Coen Actors: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus, Peter Breitmayer, David Kang, Alan Mandell, George Wyner, Amy Landecker, Fyvush Finkel The films of Joel and Ethan Coen are, for the most part, ...

The Coen Brothers have produced many modern-day classics, including "Blood Simple," "Fargo" and "The Big Lebowski," and we recommend all of them.

If there's one thing you can't accuse the Coen brothers of, it's selling out. After achieving perhaps their greatest critical success for No Country for Old Men and boffo box office for their inspired comic follow-up Burn After Reading , they've gone and made their most befuddling picture since Barton Fink .

Jeff Bridges , John Goodman and Steve Buscemi in "The Big Lebowski." Bridges plays Jeffrey Lebowski - "the Dude" - the slacker-saint anti-hero of the 1998 Coen brothers movie.

No filmmaker can torture a man quite the way these two can. From the Dude to Llewelyn Moss' bloody end, angst is never so much fun as it is in a Coen brothers film.

Michael Stuhlbarg is not a name or a face you would recognize, despite 20 years of success in stage, film and television work.

Joel and Ethan Coen took the title of their latest film, "A Serious Man," from the dialogue they created for the characters in their surreal, darkly affectionate look at a Midwest Jewish community.

Writer/director Joel Coen on the set of a oeA Serious Mana with actor Richard Kind and brother Ethan Coen .